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...says physicist Andrew Spence, who participated in the work. "Once you synchronize the two, you can determine the relative motion of the man and the horse." The jockeys also wore global-positioning trackers so their speed and position could be followed. "The tracker was in the helmet, where the GPS satellites could get a clear view of it," says Spence. The horses and riders were then sent running, and the biomechanical data poured...
...Mars, complete with an R2D2-like robot on wheels. He disables the IED, and as he walks away, his comrades spot a man about to use a cell phone. The spaceman turns and runs. Too late: BOOM! The bomb explodes and so does he. Blood seeps down his helmet visor like red rain on the wrong side of a car windshield...
...right back at her with economic realities and intellectual independence and “Student groups support themselves” and “That’s just the way it is.” It’s helmet to helmet almost every time, but her maternal indignation is no match for my impulsive rebellion. I’m on the defensive before she’s even chosen a play. The funny thing is, most of the time I agree with...
...spending this year by nearly 26% to about $37 billion, and given military producers of strategic weapons like missile systems and aircraft an extra $1.9 billion in 2009. In late March, just days before flying to the G-20 summit in London, the President donned a military pilot's helmet and uniform at an air base near Moscow for a ride in the back of a Sukhoi-34 fighter bomber, one of Russia's most sophisticated and deadly pieces of hardware. Afterwards he told reporters that it was time to modernize the country's entire air-force fleet. "We have...
...disastrous Chechen war. Near the decrepit train station of Vladimir, a military town near Moscow, an army-recruiting center promises a life of adventure for those who sign up. THE ARMY OF RUSSIA - AN ARMY OF PROFESSIONALS, says a billboard, showing a young man in a leather military helmet peering out of a tank scope. Not yet, it isn't. But money always helps...