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...chairman Jackson, 49, pulled international aircraft back to Australia and helped 110,000 stranded Ansett passengers fly for little or nothing. The goodwill was repaid: domestic earnings jumped nearly 60% this year. Qantas this month will issue more than $400 million in new stock to finance expansion of its fleet and launch a new leisure airline...
...That's where all the newfangled gadgetry comes in. A burst of buying in the past three years has given China a high-tech capability it never had before. China has added quiet-running submarines to its already extensive underwater fleet, as well as powerful anti-ship missiles and top-gun fighter jets, mostly supplied by Russia. In so doing, China is creating pockets of military excellence to address "real-world scenarios like coercing Taiwan back to negotiations or deterring U.S. action," says Thomas Christensen, a military expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taiwan has nervously taken notice...
...PBHA is having a difficult time meeting the already high demand for its vehicles—the seatless van is part of a fleet of seven used to transport materials, student volunteers and children participating in some of its 77 programs...
...high-tech gimmickry is exceedingly thin on the ground at Waste Expo; four lonely exhibitors huddle forlornly in the "Technology Pavilion," fully half a mile from the main entrance and conveniently adjacent to the "Medical Waste Pavilion." Tracey Anderson of CFA, which markets a computer program to track truck-fleet maintenance, bravely tries to spin her booth's isolation: "It's almost a blessing in disguise, because the people coming back here are really looking...
Fast forward to the present and I find myself near the end of training and only a few short months from being assigned to my first fleet squadron. The F/A-18 Hornet I fly and I are about to become part of the tip of the U.S. military’s spear. And while the tactical air mission in Afghanistan is all but complete, it is still a good bet that carrier-based Navy jets will have a role in whatever military action is required for the next phase of the War on Terrorism—be it in Iraq...