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Sanders was one of some 600,000 people to leave prison in 2001, more than ever before. The record was broken again last year. The crowds that filled the prisons in the 1990s are streaming back out. Their return to civilian life is the biggest problem facing the U.S. criminal-justice system. Within three years, most ex-inmates are rearrested...
...bought 10 Loral electronic-manufacturing divisions, glued them together, bulked up their research-and-development units and named them L-3 (for Lanza, La Penta and Lehman Bros.). Lanza took the company public in 1998. Now L-3 thrives in two fast-growing markets: high-tech military gear and civilian security...
...response, L-3 has been scrambling to devise civilian 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...
...next: sensors used to secure naval-base perimeters are being adapted to protect nuclear power plants and major landmarks. As for those dummies--technically, "medical simulator mannequins"--they have been deployed by the military to train MASH units and are being adapted for civilian emergency medical teams and teaching hospitals. The more sophisticated civilian models, costing $50,000 to $150,000 each, have variable pulses, respiration rates, oxygen saturation counts, pupil dilation and other programmable manifestations of sickness and injury...
...When the war comes, will these phalanxes of volunteers live up to the promises they chanted today and fearlessly give up their lives for their country and President? Will this civilian "army" of out-of-shape, middle-aged Party workers and their poorly drilled daughters and sons offer even token resistance against an invading force of highly trained, armed-to-the-teeth G.I.s? To ask such questions would be to rain on this parade. It would also be beside the point, which is this: even in the face of doom, potentially only days away from what might be the demise...