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...unmanned aircraft ostensibly knit together in a computerized cavalry. The Army likes to argue that the FCS is a transformational approach to fighting wars, in part because it is giving up a lot of armor in favor of some 95 million lines of computer code designed to detect and avoid enemy fire. In theory, all this technology would give combat GIs the ability to destroy the enemy from far away...
Plenty of my countrymen do. Through necessity, I was entering a club more viewers are joining by choice: the posttelevision society. Some download TV to avoid ads. Some Netflix series so they can watch them in one big marathon. Some like the convenience, some the portability. Some are cutting their cable or satellite bills to save money in hard times. Millions of others use online video as a backup--Huluing dramas they missed live, watching March Madness on CBSSports.com or Wimbledon on ESPN360. (Preferably at work...
...quintessentially American conun-drum writ small: the right to liberty against the rule of law. Too many rules, and you feel like a puppet. Too few, and you're stuck wondering what you're doing there. "You want to avoid that basic fear of terrifying existential crisis," Houser says. "You don't want to put that into the game." There's enough of that in real life...
Smith said he will not publish specific department or center cuts to avoid any “premature or uninformed” announcement, but he reiterated his commitment to cut expenses by 15 percent across FAS over the next few years...
...companies to keep their workers by reducing the amounts employers must contribute to social welfare programs such as pensions and medical insurance. Local governments are making up the difference with subsidies. The Minhang district in Shanghai alone has set aside a budget of $290 million to assist struggling businesses avoid layoffs. The local government will also cover the expenses for job-training programs. "We want companies to avoid redundancy as much as possible, and as a government department, what we can do is to help them with favorable policies," says Ni Xuebin, deputy director of the Minhang Labor Department...