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...blood troops. Other companies have robotic Iraq veterans too. In Defense News, Kris Osborne reports that Exponent, a California firm, has had its MARCbot series since April 2004. They cost about $10,000 apiece, weigh 25 lbs and can be used at night. Meanwhile, Defense News says that Foster-Miller, a Massachussets company, may propose a lighter-weight version of its current 115 to 140 lb. TALON model...
...Miller, author of The 2% Solution, is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress
Corrosion may have played a role here as well: the Minneapolis bridge - what's known as a deck steel truss bridge - was a concrete roadway supported by gridwork of steel. "When you use both concrete and steel like this," says William Miller, an expert on bridge engineering at Temple University in Philadelphia, "there can be chemical reactions going on where these two very different substances meet. This is especially a problem in extreme climates where water can get into the cracks between supports, freeze and expand and cause a huge amount of damage." Beyond that, says Miller, "concrete...
Uplift and empowerment are all well and good--girls kick ass; we get it--but showing that women can be as good as men without showing that they also can be as bad is condescending. And it's boring. As Nancy Miller, Saving Grace's creator, puts it, "Being tough is a male characteristic? Enjoying sex is a male characteristic? Throwing a few back is a male characteristic...
...action stars (Alias) or less complicated heroines (Crossing Jordan), or, more likely, were second leads or co-stars with men (The X-Files, CSI). Sturm und Drang remained men's work. "I've been trying to sell a new Cagney & Lacey to the networks for 15 years," says Miller. "I've developed it five different times, but it's never gotten to the point of being shot as a pilot. A lot of people think you need a male lead...