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...solitary disbelief and solitary horror. For although I have never felt more communally connected to my fellow New Yorkers, I have also never felt quite so stranded, helpless, alone. All I can think to care about at this precise moment, all I can think to listen for over the drone of the newscaster’s voice citing a death toll in the thousands, is the slight click on the other end of that damn phone, the slight catch before an intake of breath, and the sound of my mother, father or brother’s voice...
...RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Bush has proposed a $1.4 billion increase for missile-defense research, but the program will need billions more in coming years. And Rumsfeld's vision of a modern military will require money for smaller, faster vehicles; unmanned drone planes; a mobile, giant cannon; killer satellites. Without a public clamor for big defense budgets, those dollars may never appear...
...more industrial materials find their way into our homes, worker-drone felt, the gray stuff used in refrigerator engines and as gaskets, has moved in too. The Feltup chair, from Minneapolis, Minn., designers Blu-Dot, uses felt made from recycled sweaters and socks for its slinglike seat. Furniture-design team Burning Relic makes a table with a 1-in.-thick slab of felt. British designer Anne Kyyro uses felt on blinds and lampshades...
...drone's benefits are obvious: without people aboard, costs can be slashed because expensive life-support systems such as oxygen supplies, ejection seats, fire-suppression systems and armor aren't needed. The nimbleness and speed of today's fighters aren't limited by weak engines or fuselage stress limits but by the human body's inability to withstand high G-forces, a problem that would disappear in a pilotless plane...
Moreover, any drone capable of replicating the EP-3E mission is far down the road. After all, the Air Force only now is building Global Hawk drones at $50 million a pop to replace the venerable U-2 spy planes. The new drones, capable of loitering high over hostile terrain for more than a day, should be flying real-world missions by 2010--a full half-century after the Soviet Union shot down Francis Gary Powers' U-2. --By Mark Thompson/Washington...