Word: detective
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...approaching when the U.S. military can deploy a robot that can drive itself around a corner, use senors to detect an enemy fighter on the move and destroy targets instantly with missiles and machine guns - all without human intervention? The Pentagon thinks the day may be imminent, and it wants to ensure that its technology doesn't get ahead of military doctrine. It wants to be certain that there is always a human making decisions regarding the use of lethal force...
...despite all the high-level enthusiasm for medical record-keeping, it is the doctors themselves who have been slow to espouse the system. Major pharmacy chains now accept electronic prescriptions and use software to detect drug-drug interactions, but only about 10% to 15% of physicians nationwide have swapped their prescription pads for computers. "How can you make the nation's health system electronic when you haven't even had an area or a city to show that they can do it?" says Stephen Klasko, dean of the college of medicine at the University of South Florida and an architect...
...increase in membership," says Lord Alderdice, who serves on the Independent Monitoring Commission, which evaluates intelligence on paramilitary activity. "We've not been talking about substantial organizations." A security source concurs, saying the threat emanates from a "relatively small number of individuals," in groups that may be harder to detect because they "are fragmented and geographically segmented." Sinn Fein has called on its republican supporters to assist the police in combating the dissidents' efforts to reignite violence in Northern Ireland. And that has been welcomed by the party's longtime opponents. Because many of the dissidents are former members...
...Yulin, at the southern tip of Hainan. The U.S. vessel carries sophisticated surveillance equipment that was in use - Chinese sailors used poles in an effort to snag the Impeccable's towed acoustic array sonars, which dangle beneath the vessel. The gear was most likely being used to try to detect the movements of Chinese subs in and out of Yulin, where Beijing's new Shang-class nuclear-powered attack subs have recently been spotted...
...clash with China over Taiwan, being able to bottle up Chinese subs at their base - and measuring the range from their base within which U.S. technology could be used to hunt them before they escape into the open sea, where they would be much more difficult to detect - are key U.S. intelligence goals. The data collected by vessels like the Impeccable, along with detailed maps of the ocean floor near the Chinese base that would guide U.S. sub hunters, are funneled into massive U.S. Navy databases that are invaluable in time of war. (The Impeccable joined three U.S. carriers...