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...Aside from new and improved special effects, what Hollywood seems to have been producing lately is noise, noise that we don’t need. In light of everything threatening the fabric of this country, what is the point of a place like that? Lane’s question, albeit in an altered form, deserves an answer...
...navigate obstacles without human guidance. The MULE - a 14-ft.-long, six-wheeled robot equipped with a range of navigational sensors slated to deploy with U.S. forces 2015 - will eventually carry Javelin antitank missiles and M240 machine guns. The MULE could well carry supplies and conduct reconnaissance missions for light infantry units in difficult terrain like Afghanistan. It is programmed with onboard computers so that the vehicle can find its own way around corners, up mountains and over obstacles...
...spacious rooms, but face it—you live in the Quad. You will psyche yourself out that it's not so bad, but on that occasional night where you're standing around freezing at 3:30am, you'll think about the hundreds of hours you light on fire because of living in the Quad and you'll shed a little tear for the cold arbitrariness of life...
America's car companies are still operating on the premise that the new car market will recover in a year or two. It may not rebound from its current annual run-rate of 10 million light vehicles to more than 16 million where it was three years ago, but surely it will get back to 14 million to 15 million...
...that but getting an accurate count of businesses that may employ only one or two people is almost impossible. The National Automobile Dealers Association, in contrast, reports that about 21,000 car dealers employed 1.1 million people in 2006. Since there are probably more than 100 million cars and light trucks on the road, many people are getting their cars repaired at some place other than a new car dealership...