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When the first wave of Africanized killer bees reaches the Texas border as early as next year, some of the restless insects may be turned into informants for the scientists who are plotting against them. The aerospace company Martin Marietta has designed a solar-powered microchip transmitter that can be glued snugly onto a bee's back, enabling entomologists to follow the swarm's movements and observe the bees' mating and foraging habits. The transmitter emits an infrared signal that can be detected up to a mile away. The company is still testing the tiny bee tracer, which it hopes...
...eager to snare a piece of the project, called FTS-2000, for Federal Telecommunications System. As the largest telecommunications contracting job in U.S. history, the proposed deal has attracted a Who's Who of bidders that includes AT&T, all seven local phone companies, MCI, GM/EDS, Boeing and Martin Marietta. The winning contractors will replace the old system with a showpiece network that will enable federal workers to transmit computer data, conduct video conferences at their desks, send facsimile images and even transfer funds. Says Fritz Ringling, a private telecommunications consultant: "Whoever builds this thing will win the bragging rights...
...safety experts' report, NASA called a press conference last week at which George Rodney, the agency's top safety official, said he had thoroughly reorganized safety and quality- control operations. This included a 30% increase in personnel assigned to these watchdog duties. A tough former test pilot and Martin Marietta official, Rodney declared that anyone with a safety complaint could now readily get the attention of key project managers...
Ronald Reagan appeared to be standing on the threshold of a Buck Rogers future. In a Martin Marietta Corp. research plant outside Denver last week, the President stood before an 18-ft. partial mock-up of a chemical laser project that might one day be rocketed into space to zap Soviet nuclear missiles heading for the U.S. Reagan assured company engineers that the Strategic Defense Initiative, his space-based antimissile program, was "bounding forward" and that they were not working on a bargaining chip to be traded away in an arms deal...
...Windy City. Officials at some stations who once forbade such arrangements have concluded that employing couples is sometimes good business. Indeed, antinepotism rules are slowly being lifted at companies across the nation. O'Melveny & Myers, one of the nation's largest law firms, has engaged several married couples. Martin Marietta, the giant aerospace and defense contractor, actually has an affirmative hire-a-couple policy. The company believes it is a sound strategy to lure and retain top people. Its Denver division now adds about 100 couples a year, notes Personnel Administrator Joseph Weiner. And there is no charity involved. "Eight...