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...unpleasant a job that Genmar has a hard time getting workers to do it. Pyramid built a few test hulls for Genmar, but Kirila's system wasn't refined enough for Jacobs' engineers. "They were 90% there, and we needed 100%," says Jacobs. "So it represented a multimillion-dollar leap of faith...
...still having difficulty taking a leap of faith, I've put together a few reasons (outside the stories themselves) to consider...
...Intelligence Agencies are nervously eyeing these new designs. Quantum computers, in particular, could be so powerful that they might one day break the most intricate secret codes the CIA can concoct. Not that a quantum supercomputer is going to leap out of some laboratory and paralyze the CIA anytime soon. These computers seem to be exquisitely sensitive. The tiniest disturbance--even a passing cosmic ray--can change the orientation of their computational atoms, spoiling the calculation. At present, quantum computers can perform only trivial calculations on perhaps five atoms. To do any useful work, they would need to calculate...
...after two years in New York Governor Mario Cuomo's office, Russert's plans changed as he made the leap from politics to media...
...table this week were too fraught to be tackled early on, and should be postponed to allow interim agreements to foster greater trust between Israelis and Palestinians. If anything, the reverse has been true, with the result that Arafat and Barak have to make an even greater leap of faith than the late Yitzhak Rabin made with the Palestinian leader at a time when their uniformed men are as prone to fire on each other as they were a decade ago, and their supporters are more vehemently opposed than ever to compromising on the key issues. "Israel?s Lebanon withdrawal...