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...military officer what Columbus, Miss., is known for, and he will tell you it produces a lot of good Air Force pilots and a good lot of fiancés. The tiny town near the Alabama border feels authentically Southern: it's host to a regional bass-fishing tournament, and Tennessee Williams once called it home. So it is curious to discover that an ambitious global-defense contractor has established a beachhead here...
...that hasn't yet paid off (although the company will soon offer a Light Utility Helicopter for the Army that it says could be worth $1 billion). EADS's American work force is still very small--just 2,000 jobs. Dozens of those 72 positions are recent hires in Columbus. Some are working on used maintenance equipment bought from Texas-based Bell Helicopter. Ask any flyer what Bell was once best known for, and he will have the answer: Bell made the Pentagon's favorite military helicopters. Now EADS is angling to own that spot. Ralph Crosby hopes that before...
Here, for example, is Mark Telthorster, 32, a team handball goalie from Columbus, watching two women's teams play the violent and, in the U.S., wholly unappreciated game that has captured his imagination. A fast and not very subtle cross between basketball and soccer, it looks wrong to the basketball-educated eye, explains Telthorster, who hopes to coach the sport professionally, because you may take three full steps before and after dribbling. And, yes--here three or four bodies splat together and hit the floor--because very aggressive body checking is permitted. "Awright, way to deck her, Sandra!" yells...
...MPAA sued students at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas, Columbia University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Rochester, Boston University, the University of Ohio at Cincinnati, the University of Ohio at Columbus, Ohio State University, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, according to spokeswoman Kori Bernards...
Indeed, creating objects that have natural-looking textures is one of the key challenges facing computer artists. "It's very easy to make something look smooth, like plastic or ice," says Wayne Carlson, director of production at Cranston/Csuri Productions in Columbus. "What's difficult is to give something the mottled look of bark, leaves or grass." Texture mapping, a computer technique akin to wrapping a photograph of a rough rock around a smooth stone, is one solution to the problem. Another involves the use of a class of equations called fractals. "It's a technology for filling in random surfaces...