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...until just before the Christmas break that Henry Fassbender, shaper of ninth-grade minds at P.S. 117 in Huntington, Ind., finally found a moment to inspect the Amistad learning kit for himself. It had been sent to the school by overnight mail from DreamWorks, and the whole history department was aflutter. The graphics were compelling, the subject matter gripping, but as Henry sat in the faculty lounge carefully perusing the glossy pages, his heart began to sink. He could see his upcoming vacation unraveling with every page--victim to the unbearable lightness of a Hollywood learning kit...
Enter Omnitech. It makes a kit that converts a tank, humvee or even bulldozer to remote-controlled operation. Small boxlike compartments strapped onto the vehicle, each containing an assembly of wires, cables and machined steel parts, turn the steering wheel and work other controls. The "driver" sits up to a mile or so away in front of a panel with one or two joysticks or a steering wheel and a small TV screen, manipulating the vehicle like someone playing a video game. Light vehicles carry gear that pinpoints the location of the mines for later destruction. Alternatively, tanks push heavy...
Parish, a former engineer for Lockheed Martin and Motorola, put the first kit together in his basement. Since 1992 his company has outfitted 50 military vehicles and multiplied sales nearly 100 times, from $50,000 a year to $4.4 million. In Bosnia last May the kits enabled U.S. Army vehicles to find and destroy 71 antipersonnel mines in two days. Parish says he has contracts to strap the kits onto an additional several hundred vehicles over the next five years...
Adams House non-resident tutor Kit W. Gattis '91 is assisting with a Cambridge Community Television film, a special about World AIDS Day, which will be filmed today...
...around me, people murmured that I must be patient, that modern medicine would make it happen in time. But I lacked the fortitude--optimism? attitude of surrender?--required for indefinite treatment. Within months, even the act of entering a pharmacy and purchasing an ovulation-predictor kit had become a painful trial. As the disappointments accrued, each procedure felt less a celebration of potential life than a small death...