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...Pentagon soon will begin paying monthly bonuses of up to $500 to troops barred from leaving the military because they're needed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A fatter paycheck will take some of the sting out of the military's high demand for troops and the resulting stop-loss policy. But it won't do anything to dry the tears of soldiers' children distraught over Dad's or Mom's absence. Now the Pentagon wants to create computerized hologram-like moms and dads that can talk with the kids when their parents are deployed far from home...
...with a "parent" via one would "capture their interest and imagination." Companies interested in participating have until Jan. 14 to tell the Pentagon just how they would do it. Sometime around April, the Pentagon plans to award as many as three contracts of up to $100,000 each to begin work on what it calls its Virtual Dialogue Application for Families of Deployed Service Members...
Ignatius, who will begin in his new position on Jan. 19, said he welcomes the opportunity to educate a growing audience...
With new leadership, the Business Review, founded in 1922, is planning changes to adapt to the increasing importance of online resources. According to a statement, the magazine’s Web site will be redesigned in the coming weeks and it will begin offering an online-only subscription...
...Hamas fighters await with booby traps and other nasty surprises - and hundreds of thousands of civilians cower. Israeli planes dropped leaflets on Wednesday calling for the evacuation of more than 20,000 Gazans from their homes near the Egyptian border crossing of Rafah, so that the Israelis can begin bombing to destroy a network of smugglers' tunnels along the border...