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...would be rotated onto the review board and say, 'What's the matter with you guys? That thing can't carry both. Change it.' " The vehicles ended up indeed carrying both, and costing $1.4 million apiece. Another problem: the Army decided that it wanted more armor for the IFV. But the extra plating made the vehicle too wide to fit into the C-141 cargo plane, which is supposed to haul it. So the vehicle must be partly dismantled to be carried by the C-141, and would have to be reassembled on the scene...
...Berkeley and at SRI International are studying a frightening flaw in the programming of many computer systems that could allow criminals who find it to get around standard security measures. For obvious reasons, the investigators refuse to disclose the nature of this chink in a computer's armor until companies have had a chance to solve the problem. Says Charles Wood, a member of SRI's computer-security research team: "It's the most serious widespread threat to computers that we've encountered...
...crotchety old coot he appears. Rather, he is a wonderfully warm fellow who happens to be obsessed with death. Norman and Ethel are, of course, very much in love. One can debate whether any woman can get away with calling her husband a "knight in studding armor" in a movie or on stage. I doubt whether anyone could. Katherine Hepburn, though, takes a stab at it and dogs as credible a job as one could imagines. It is just that sort of relationship...
...president's armor is formidable. When the media clamps down, Reagan returns the favor by trying to seal leaks or dismissing queries with something akin to "There you go again," casting reporters as enemies of the national interest. Here the ruthless Realist in Reagan overshadows the Libertarian. When the Democrats dare to predict that Reagan's grand design will crumble under the weight of its internal contradictions, the president responds by calling these condemnations "wild charges" and warning his public not to "be fooled by those who proclaim that spending cuts will deprive the elderly, the needy and the helpless...
...interviewing many of the Japanese principals while serving as a historian on General Douglas Mac Arthur's staff in Tokyo after Japan's surrender. He learned of the daunting tactical problems that faced the planners: how to find precisely the right bombing altitude and bombs to pierce armor-plated decks, how to perfect both torpedoes and torpedo-plane tactics for Pearl Harbor's shallow waters...