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Each 377-ft. sub will feature highly sophisticated wake suppressors and pollution controls to mask its presence. A videocam system will replace the traditional optical periscope, making for more acute reconnaissance at night and in bad weather. Each vessel will have its own on-board computer network, packing more cyber-power into its 7,700 tons than the 65 attack subs that came before it put together. Eventually, the Navy plans to outfit the subs with "antitorpedo" torpedoes, which the Navy has fantasized about for decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Removing the Mask: A Celebration of Black Men," was part of "A Tribute to Black Men Week," a series of programs sponsored by the Association of Black Radcliffe Women (ABRW) honoring the achievements of and dealing with common stereotypes about black...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Black Women's Group Honors Black Men | 2/5/1999 | See Source »

Ikpe explained the event's name by reading the Paul Lawrence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask," saying black men often feel they must put on a "facade" and pretend to not care about societal misperceptions of black...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Black Women's Group Honors Black Men | 2/5/1999 | See Source »

...Brothers, tonight, don't wear the mask," Ikpe said...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Black Women's Group Honors Black Men | 2/5/1999 | See Source »

...month's attack on Iraq wasn't intended just to punish Saddam Hussein for blowing off U.N. weapons inspectors. By sorting through thousands of pieces of publicly available data--from Middle East newspapers to Iraqi-dissident news--Stratfor analysts developed a theory that the attacks were actually designed to mask a failed U.S.-backed coup. In two striking, contrarian intelligence briefs released on the Internet on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, Stratfor argued that Saddam's lightning restructuring of the Iraqi military, followed by executions of the army's Third Corps commanders, was evidence that the coup had been suppressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spies Like Us | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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