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...Pentagon scrape the air for signs of radiation or chemical attack, track the wind direction to guide escaping employees. But 9/11 Commission chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton used the anniversary to remind people that security remains a shield with holes. Most air cargo is still not screened, the high-tech bomb detectors are indefinitely delayed, and Congress demands tighter standards for drivers' licenses but won't fund them. The broadcast industry has until 2009 to turn over the spectrum that rescuers need to beam signals through concrete and steel. Three years ago, Kean and Hamilton observe, their commission noted...
...hard to predict which of the many hits will result in brain-rattling concussions, which are relatively few in number and--contrary to popular belief--often occur without loss of consciousness. Eight colleges, including three Big Ten schools, are using the team version of Riddell's high-tech helmets, which wirelessly relay real-time data--gleaned from the same sensors found in car air bags--to a sideline computer that can send a pager alert if a player receives a hit or a series of hits that exceed a certain magnitude. The new system for individual consumers works in much...
Vallas is lining up partners such as Lockheed-Martin, Shell Oil, the National Guard, various universities and perhaps even the Catholic-school network Christo Rey. With their sponsorship, he is creating an array of specialized high schools, such as a military academy, a maritime school and others focused on the arts and science. There is already a high-tech school, and Vallas is trying to persuade Microsoft to help build another. Some of the schools include paid work-study programs, which would connect the students to specific jobs when they graduate...
...have steered the leadership away from the GOP's roots in recent years. New Hampshire recently voted - without too much drama - to allow gay civil unions. It's also one of the most liberal states on abortion issues, perhaps a reflection of its libertarian heritage, and has a growing high-tech economy that has brought in more moderate or liberal-leaning voters from neighboring states like Massachusetts. "One of the reasons that you're not seeing conservative candidates doing well in our polling is that there's no one here to talk to," said Andy Smith, director of the University...
...Vietnam's post-war generation is increasingly wired, as the Communist Party attempts to foster economic growth and high-tech skills while at the same time clinging to power. The country currently has an estimated 16 million Internet users - one in five of the population - compared with just 200,000 who were online seven years ago. Three million of them are bloggers, most on foreign-hosted clients including Yahoo, which is where the fake government blogs appeared. Internet access in Vietnam is growing more than 10 times faster than the rate in China...