 | Remarks With Chinese Foreign Minister Li After Their meeting - SECRETARY RICE: Thank you very much, Minister Li, I appreciate very much your welcoming me here, this is, I’m told, our seventh meeting this year. So that’s a lot, but it is befitting because the United States and China have many issues on which we are working together. |
 | Rumsfeld says North Korea's nuclear test October 9 defied international will - Washington -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met his South Korean counterpart at the Pentagon October 20 to discuss mutual security interests and defense preparedness against the backdrop of North Korea’s October 9 nuclear test. |
 | President Bush and Secretary Leavitt Discuss Medicare - THE PRESIDENT: Secretary Leavitt and I are pleased to be here at this counter where seniors come to buy prescription drugs. And one of the interesting things that happens at this counter is that these decent folks are constantly reminding seniors that |
 | One terrorist killed and seven detained in Ramadi - BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed one suspected terrorist and detained seven other suspected terrorists, to include a close associate of the targeted terrorist, during a raid in Ramadi Saturday morning. |
 | Zaytun Division creates results - When shared, sorrow is halved and happiness is doubled. So say the troops of the Republic of Korea’s Zaytun Division, which began civil military operations in Irbil in September 2004. |
 | Rocket scientists gather at space propulsion program review - The Air Force Office of Scientific Research here recently completed a program review on space propulsion and power in Annapolis, Md. |
 | Landfill Gas Fuels New Brick Plant - For the first time, a major U.S. manufacturing facility has been sited and built next to a landfill specifically to use the landfill gas as fuel. The new Jenkins Brick Company's $56 million manufacturing plant in Moody, Ala., will use landfill gas to fuel its kilns, satisfying 40 percent of the plant's energy needs initially, with 100 percent projected in 10 years as the landfill grows. The project will also reduce greenhouse |
 | By End of the Year, NNSA Will Convert Six Reactors to the Use of Low Enriched Uranium Fuel - WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has successfully converted a research reactor at the University of Florida from the use of highly enriched uranium to low enriched uranium. This conversion comes on the heels of a reactor conversion at Texas A&M University |
 | First Unrestricted Release Of A Nuclear Power Site - On Wednesday, October 18, 2006, the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program commemorates the first-ever chemical and radiological release of a U.S. nuclear power reactor site for unrestricted future use – the Department of Energy S1C Prototype Reactor Site in Windsor, Connecticut. The 10:30 a.m. ceremony, held |
 | Detainee dies at Camp Bucca - A security detainee died Oct. 19 at Camp Bucca, Iraq, from what appears to be natural causes. |
 | Terrorist suspects apprehended after Habbaniyah attack - BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces apprehended seven suspected terrorists Oct. 19 associated with a VBIED attack on the Khaldiyah Bridge in Habbaniyah that killed two Iraqi soldiers, wounded two other Iraqi soldiers and four civilians the day prior. |
 | Greenland Ice Sheet on a Downward Slide - For the first time NASA scientists have analyzed data from direct, detailed satellite measurements to show that ice losses now far surpass ice gains in the shrinking Greenland ice sheet. |
 | 38 Indicted in Multi-State Marijuana, Ecstasy Operation - Denver, Colorado - Jeffrey D. Sweetin, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Rocky Mountain Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Mitchell R. Morrissey, District Attorney for the City and County of Denver, the Front Range Task Force, the |
 | NASA and NOAA Announce Ozone Hole is a Double Record Breaker - NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists report this year's ozone hole in the polar region of the Southern Hemisphere has broken records for area and depth. |
 | U.S. Energy Department, Russian Scientists Discover Element 118 - Washington -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, in collaboration with researchers from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, have discovered a new basic component of the universe -- element 118. |
 | Live the Good Life with John Basedow - Fitness Celebrity John Basedow will be appearing at the 1st Annual Live The Good Life Gala benefiting the American Diabetes Association. |
 | EPA Posts Results of Additional Samples Taken at the Murphy Oil Site - On Oct.17, US EPA updated its Hurricane Katrina web site pages to include the results from additional samples collected at the Murphy Oil Site in Louisiana. Pursuant to a FEMA mission assignment, US EPA is overseeing Murphy Oil's ongoing sampling activities of residential and other properties. Today EPA |
 | NASA Announces New International Space Station Crew - Washington -- NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, have named two astronauts and two cosmonauts to the next International Space Station crew, designated Expedition 15. |
 | NASA Ozone Hole Is A Record Breaker - NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
 | Rice Emphasizes Diplomatic Approach to North Korea Crisis - Washington -- A diplomatic solution to the North Korean crisis is still possible, and the U.N. resolution aimed at reigning in Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions is not designed to escalate tensions, says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. |
