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...Navy and the Air Force have regularly rewritten their tactical manuals to keep up with the rapid technological advances of the past 25 years, but the Army has been slower to adapt. Now it is trying to make up for lost time. The two-week Mojave war game, which is testing an elaborate new command-and-control system and 72 new pieces of hardware, is the Army's biggest push yet to boot up, log on and march in the information revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED FOR WAR | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

Mann said he was impressed with Granger's willingness to adapt and revise the play, and by "his wry sense of humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playwright Percy Granger Dies at 51 | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

...think women's hockey would gain more respect if the hitting was reinstated. In the world championships of 1990-91, hitting was allowed. It slowed the game down a bit, but the players would eventually adapt. The speed would return...

Author: By Grant D. Wiens, | Title: Shewchuk Revitalizes Women's Hockey | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...last week's decision permitting cops to order passengers to get out of a car, the Supreme Court has been awfully mealymouthed about protecting the zone of privacy it once discovered in the Constitution. Now the pace of technology is speeding past the ability of lawmakers to adapt. Herewith a sampling of the latest gadgetry that will soon be watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

Kohler isn't the only collegian struggling to adapt to the late March starting dates for the MLS season. In its inaugural season last year, the league tried jetting top college seniors to their clubs every weekend, but the experiment was less than successful, and players like Kohler might struggle to become fully ingratiated into the squad until, say, mid-June...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Kohler Gets Ticket to the Big Show | 2/5/1997 | See Source »

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