Word: gps
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Hikers do it. Ambulance drivers do it. Even fighter pilots do it. Around the world, millions of people use the global positioning system, or GPS, to know where they are and where they're headed. The satellite-based navigation system has become an indispensable tool for everyone from cell-phone manufacturers to oil drillers, which explains why a government report on GPS released this month prompted a tide of concern. The Government Accountability Office warned of "significant challenges" to maintaining the system at full strength beginning as soon as next year, due to technical problems and delays...
...most recent innovation to make the details of everyone's life available to everyone else is a GPS tracking phone. Someone late for a meeting can no longer say he is stuck in traffic. His phone shows he is in the coffee shop just around the corner. A company called Glympse offers this tracking product for a number of smartphones. (See a TIME package on travel gadgets...
...existence of a GPS system that keeps track of people's locations gets into the tricky moral issue of lying. Pre-GPS, people would tell lies about why they were late all of the time. There may not have been much harm in it, especially since it was hard to verify whether someone's claim was true. (See a story on GPS...
...approved, detailed shuttle information and schedules can be found at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/passenger_transport_services/. Harvard College is working with Passenger Transport Services to maintain shuttle service during peak hours of ridership, including morning and late afternoon periods. In addition, we have ensured the continuation of Shuttle Tracker, the real-time GPS tracking system which allows students to wait indoors until a shuttle is nearing a stop, helping them plan their schedules more efficiently. However, preliminary service reductions during the academic year will be instituted including the following...
...kinds of fluid, counter-insurgencies the U.S. has been waging recently. At the same time, however, the Pentagon's latest budget proposal has just cancelled what was once a more future-looking program that would have developed 27-ton vehicles with lightweight armor and the ability to fire GPS-guided shells...