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Some of the plots are believed to be in the planning stages. A senior Administration official tells TIME that domestic law-enforcement agencies are investigating a report that Islamic extremists in this country are trying to acquire parts to build an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) abroad--the kind of machine that terrorism experts believe could be deployed to spray chemical agents over populated areas. The fear is that a UAV assembled overseas could be used against U.S. assets there...
...Looking at it from an aerial map, obviously this is a corner piece that Harvard would like to have,” says Paul Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic Association...
...more adrenaline-fueled encounters with the mountains, try Sunrise Paragliding's excursions out of Pokhara. The six-year-old British-Nepali partnership (see nepal-paragliding.com) offers a range of aerial experiences. Trek or jeep to a mountaintop and then paraglide down with an instructor. The three-day paratrek has you landing in a different village each night. In one of its most popular activities, parahawking, you follow hawks trained to find elusive mountain updrafts for rides that can last for several hours...
...applications for its technology. Over the past year or so, the company has been on an acquisition binge, buying smaller companies in electronic-communications niches. A recent purchase was Wescam, a Canadian maker of stable cameras used by the movie industry to film action scenes--cameras well suited for aerial duty. And L-3 is one of the few suppliers of those hulking new airport luggage scanners mandated by Congress to screen checked bags. L-3's version uses technology originally developed to process military surveillance and reconnaissance photos. The company produces other scanning devices, designed to reveal concealed weapons...
...have to be a civil engineer to see that the forts, many of which are clustered around small settlements between Basra and the town of Arama, are crude constructions. They don't look particularly durable, and seem unprotected from aerial attack. Nonetheless, they will likely play an important role in any land war. In a flat, barren landscape, they offer the only high ground...