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...industry's margins, overall, make it tough to book stellar profits. Experienced technical translators in Western Europe and the U.S. earn upwards of $80,000 a year, and project managers with strong linguistic skills command even higher pay. Despite a recent wave of consolidation, dozens of small companies still duke it out; the business remains a buyer's market. "Microsoft has the money and dictates prices," says industry association chief Anobile. "Clients rule...
While the Pentagon has been using drones as flying spies for years, it was less than 18 months ago that Jumper--then running the Air Force's Air Combat Command--first realized that his growing fleet of unmanned aircraft represented a missed opportunity. "It just clicked: that if we could put a small weapon on this thing, we could do the entire cycle--find a target, kill it and assess it--from the same vehicle," the Vietnam War pilot recalls. Jumper didn't actually engineer the missile-firing drone, but he oversaw and championed its development. Even more important...
...Taliban has three command posts in the trench line that winds along the ridge. Early on, a tank shell scores a direct hit on the post on the right flank, but the center and the left prove harder to crack. "Shoot at the ones straight ahead. I can't see the ones on the left," Hassan tells Bashir, his tank commander, over the radio. The T-55 fires again. Twenty minutes into the attack, the shelling tempo increases; there is an explosion every couple of seconds. At 3:55 the Alliance troops on the right flank say the Taliban...
...after absorbing 50 min. of hard pounding, the Taliban troops suddenly start shelling Hassan's command post with a Russian artillery piece that had been hidden on the left flank. "They are like dogs. They never give up. They must be Arabs," says Hassan. He orders his tanks to aim at the artillery piece, but it keeps shooting back, each shell getting closer to Hassan's position. The closest round lands 25 yds. from the trench before some soldiers--and the handful of journalists observing them--withdraw...
...high command of the U.S. military, that was enough to elicit a few sighs of relief. The U.S. had yearned for a battlefield victory in Afghanistan that would vindicate five weeks of aerial attacks, bolster confidence in the Pentagon's strategy and puncture some of the Taliban's swelling resolve before winter sets in. While the Alliance's siege of Mazar may not have satisfied all those aims, it did give the U.S. campaign a welcome adrenaline jolt. And its significance ran deeper: in its quick betrayals and shifting tempo, primitive clashes and unanticipated results, the battle for Mazar...