* Pak gives up on Osama

* U.S. terror strategy backs off Al-Qaeda

* "Little America's" Taliban resurgence

* Congressman goes to war; senator returns

* "Marine unearths nukes, cocaine and $25m"

* Navy's iPod secret

* Sats' x-ray guidance

* SOCOM's new marching orders

* Space planes, revisited

* Stun from afar

* IDF: regressed?

* L.A. Times flunks chem-bio test

* "Is this Bush's secret bunker?"

* "The supersonic future" (1975)

* 10 runs, 1 inning

(Big ups: FT, GP, RC)