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...keeps motorists from getting lost. Although Pentagon documents say GPS data will help guide the interceptor during test flights, program officials say the data will be used only if other methods fail. Any use of GPS data, says Coyle, "does not suitably stress the system in a realistic enough manner to support acquisition decisions...
...environmentalists and engineers are frantically coming up with plans to save New Orleans. One idea is to raise levee walls to increase their effectiveness against storm surges. Another is to create large-scale diversions that would allow the Mississippi to flood in a controlled manner--and through sedimentation add thousands of acres a year of new land. Yet another would be to take immediate steps to reverse the loss of sensitive wetlands. Adding land through sedimentation is one of the best ways of restoring wetlands. Among other possible schemes: cutting back on shipping routes that harm marshes, installing wave absorbers...
...other day-care centers paying their executives six figures while paying their experienced teachers only $6.50 an hour. "The mind-set is that this is money up for grabs," says Dennis Dycus, the state official who oversaw most of the audits. "The systems are set up in such a manner that they promote people to steal--they beg people to steal...
...course, everyone assumes this would be as secretary of state for George W. Bush. But Powell's not really saying. In the manner that movie stars use when speaking of people with whom they are "just really good friends," he said he's had "lots of conversations," with Bush and that "those conversations are private." (After all, General Powell's deepest relationship was with George W.'s father.) And while the Bushies aren't telling either, they're floating the idea that W. will name at least some Cabinet members before November. Whether that will make friends and influence voters...
...partly to avoid ending up in Kaplan's extensive archives that the digital workforce has started to act in a new and strangely sensible manner. When he got bored in his last job, software engineer Jason Fisher went to a headhunter and arranged interviews with 10 small, good-looking pre-IPO companies. Each made him a higher offer than the one before, and yet Fisher chose the company--myplay.com which copies and stores your CDs online--that made him the lowest offer. In fact, it was a pay cut. Why? "I didn't want to go anywhere that I didn...