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...that apparently stopped at the hospital's front door. According to a series in this week's Washington Post, some wounded soldiers have lived amid mice, mold and mismanagement in outpatient facilities. It was a shocking account to ordinary Americans who know of Walter Reed by its spit-shine, high-tech image, but especially to me. An embedded reporter who lost a hand in a grenade attack, I was treated at Walter Reed as an in-patient from December 16, 2003 to January 8, 2004, when I left for my home in Washington. I returned regularly to the hospital...
...firms no doubt battle for some of the same customers, but Plastic Logic's Jones thinks there's room for both. And, as he sees it, the companies are pioneering processes and developing the supplier base that will make a new wave of high-tech gadgetry possible. "This commercialization is putting that infrastructure in place," Jones says. If he has his way, it will let him put electronics on just about anything...
...Trace These stackables give a high-tech nod to standard garden furniture. "Close your eyes, think of summer seating and you see this shape," says Shin Azumi, the Trace chair's London-based Japanese designer, who used Hirek, a clever polymer, for structural support. Any resemblance to a G-string is coincidental. Honest. www.desalto.it...
...right, which shoots a beam of electromagnetic radiation calibrated to cause an intense burning sensation (similar to touching a hot lightbulb) but no long-term damage. Unlike traditional brute-force tools of dispersal--such as batons and rubber bullets, which can maim or even kill--a new wave of high-tech crowd-control devices promises to keep the peace without causing casualties...
...Congress authorized $8.5 million to build a new amputee center there for the intervening years, but Intrepid's sponsors proved the superiority of the private sector. They outspent the federal facility, made it more high-tech and finished faster - the Walter Reed project began planning well before Intrepid but is still far from finished...