The Federal Communications Commission has long been the killing field where new wireless technologies are bumped off and buried.

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NATO's spokesman, to speak of terror on a scale not seen since the Khmers Rouges made Cambodia a killing field in the 1970s.

ECONOMIST: A week is a long time in a war

But if Darfur remains a killing field, the chance of the south staying peaceful is small.

ECONOMIST: Outsiders must still try to avert a catastrophe

In Bosnia the UK declined to create what the foreign secretary at the time called a, "level killing field", and in Libya it also decided not to send weapons even though RAF aircraft were bombing government forces and British Special Forces were (eventually) put on the ground.

BBC: What is driving EU Syria arms embargo move?

Moussaoui's attorneys have said he had no direct connections to the hijackers who commandeered the four planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a rural Pennsylvania field, killing more than 3, 000 people.

CNN: Agent: Moussaoui 'could fly ... into the WTC'

But can the African Union afford to elect him as long as Darfur remains a killing field?

NPR: African Union Leaders to Meet in Sudan

Likening plaque deposits to "tombstones, " she says the field historically has been too focused on autopsy findings like plaques rather than on whatever is killing brain cells while people are still alive.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Stirling N3654 crashed into a field 500 yards from Opmeer, near Bergen, on 11 May, 1941, killing all seven men on board.

BBC: The Stirling N3654 of No.15 Squadron crashed on 11 May 1941