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With military recruitment a constant struggle, the U.S. Army is coming up with a new way to come up with bodies: it is going to build them. This week, the Army begins a "drive-off" to see what contractor is going to provide up to 1,000 bomb-clearing robots by year's end, with a possible follow-up order for 2,000 more. The requirement is for a remote-controlled, wireless robot that weighs 50 pounds or less "to be used for Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detection and identification," according to the Pentagon's solicitation...
...conclusion of at least 30 hours of classroom instruction, six hours of behind-the-wheel training, and at least 25 hours of supervised driving, young Illinoisians are allowed to take the state’s driving test. The rewards for our labors are a plastic card that reminds us we are not yet 21, and perhaps permission to use the family station wagon to drive to school...
...Manhattan to Long Island. After ten minutes of wandering through dark back roads, he slammed on the brakes and let out an impressive string of expletives, ending in a detailed description of what exactly he would do to himself if ever forced to live outside of a city and drive a motor vehicle...
...watched a grown man dissolve into a whimpering mass of clothing and car keys, I wondered why even those city dwellers with license to drive seemed uncomfortable doing so outside of the well-lit grid of the city. A few times I’ve even worried that when I finally drive again for the first time in almost a year, I will have forgotten how. I’m reassured, however, by those who tell me that learning to drive is something you never forget...
...material) enumerating the various adventures I plan to take this coming school year. I’m starting small, with trips to Inman, Porter, and Davis Squares. I also want to go to the Institute of Contemporary Art and the waterfront Back Bay area of Boston. I want to drive through Vermont to see New England’s beautiful forests as the leaves are changing color. I want to go to a Christmas Fair in Nantucket in the holiday season...