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...that took him all over the country to search for, recover and clean up the remains of fallen soldiers - one of the most important and gruesome yet least talked-about military assignments. TIME spoke with Lichtenwalner about his experiences and why he and fellow Marine Ryan Sawyer decided to launch a company called Biotrauma Inc. in their native Georgia that performs similar tasks...
...When did you and Ryan decide to launch Biotrauma? My second deployment, the one that Ryan was on, was from February to September '05. We would get to talking with the escorts as they were hanging out in our lobby prior to shipping the remains out. We got to talking with these people and started to notice how emotionally distraught they were when they were connected to such traumatic incidents. And we realized we had the skills to help these people out back home who were going through these types of things, and what came to mind was homicides...
...Paul Stein, the MOD director of Science and Technology, told TIME at the launch of the British plan: "We and our allies need creative alternatives to fossil fuels. This document gives our partners in industry the confidence that we are serious about finding those solutions. The message is clear: we'll consider anything, as long as it works and gets us away from fossil fuels...
...main factory in Singur in the state of West Bengal. Last year, protests over people who were displaced from their farmland by the plant turned violent. The company was forced to abandon Singur and shift production to four existing facilities in other cities, a disruption that delayed the launch by several months. A new plant in business-friendly Gujarat will be ready at the end of 2010 with an annual capacity of 250,000, expandable...
...This bold idea may take years to realize, but the Nano is a first step. Tata hopes the car's launch will encourage similar innovations throughout the Tata Group. Others envision the Nano as something even more: a way to connect and mobilize India's declining rural economy, creating new jobs, new infrastructure and a culture of innovation far outside the big cities. "It's kind of like the iPod," says Tarun Khanna, a Harvard Business School professor who has studied the Tata Group for years. The Nano is a blank slate, he explains, that makes people think, What...