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...life for all and to keep the economy strong. A vibrant economy and a healthy middle class are essential to funding for the arts and humanities, general scholarship programs like Pell grants, and social programs for the poor and elderly. Inventions created by government-funded scientists, such as the laser, the MRI, and the Internet, have beneficial effects on wide-ranging parts of society. To say that science scholarships will have no positive societal impact is ludicrous...
Doing the right thing doesn't only help protect the brand. It also can help secure future resources and markets. Consider the corporate response to the HIV pandemic. "AIDS is like a laser-guided missile targeting the most productive segments of economies and societies," says Trevor Neilsen, executive director of the Global Business Coalition Against HIV/ AIDS (gbc). The epidemic in emerging economies such as India and China, he notes, threatens the future health of global commerce. As many as 30% of the employees at certain mines in Africa are infected. The severity of the crisis has prompted mining giants...
...Lately, the laser of public scrutiny has fixed on three of Australia's highest-profile mentors. Wayne Bennett quit as coach of the Australian rugby league team on Dec. 9, a week after the Australian Rugby Union sacked Eddie Jones as coach of the Wallabies. Despite a catastrophic mission failure in England and calls for a change at the helm, John Buchanan has kept his job as coach of the national cricket team. In temperament and style, the three coaches have little in common. But perhaps their setbacks these past few months can be traced to the same thing: each...
...camera mounted on the bottom of the Predator not only to Nellis but also to troops on the ground, commanders in the region and the Pentagon. The crew consists of a pilot who flies the plane and launches missiles and a sensor operator who controls the camera and the laser targeting device for the two Hellfires. The crew members communicate with troops and commanders in the war zone through secure instant-messaging systems as well as radio transmissions routed through a mission controller who sits in a command center at Nellis and issues orders to the crew...
...SENSOR OPERATOR Airman 1st Class Kimberly Mendoza works the craft's camera and laser targeting device and keeps the missile on track after it's fired...