Word: monitors
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Much of the research on hull design is done with model boats in water tanks. Computers can monitor the various ways in which the boat interacts with the water and help designers build prototypes based on the results. The Italians ran scores of tests in a 400-m (437-yd.) tank to fashion the Venezia's hull. America 3's designers did their research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to come up with a longer, narrow-bowed hull, meant to slice through the choppy seas expected at San Diego...
...abortion-rights troops also caught Operation Rescue by surprise. Some of them, including members of the Feminist Majority Foundation, showed up a month ago to set up a secret command center, train people to defend the clinics with predawn human barricades, and monitor through a network of walkie-talkies and cellular telephones every move of the antiabortion forces. Last week the abortion-rights contingent of 500 matched Operation Rescue's body for body...
...correspondent Daniel Benjamin lives at the nexus of the most dramatic changes in postwar Europe. "The tensions between East and West swirl around you here with a power that one has difficulty imagining anywhere else," he says. James Wilde, who opened our Istanbul bureau in January, is positioned to monitor Turkey's increasingly vital strategic role in Europe and the Persian Gulf, as well as its relationships with the emerging Islamic republics...
...FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, GOT OUT of the cable-television business after running up $235 million in losses over seven years. Shutdown costs -- including severance packages for the 400 employees of Monitor Television who were laid off -- will run another $45 million. While church officials search for a buyer for the cable operation, the Monitor Channel will broadcast reruns. The channel managed to attract about 4 million subscribers before its demise, a bantamweight entry in the cable ring compared with the likes of the Discovery Channel, which has upwards of 57 million homes...
...television fiasco has triggered deep schisms within the Christian Science Church over the use and accountability of church funds. Thus far, officials have borrowed $41.5 million from the institution's pension fund to cover operating losses. The three top officials of Monitor Television, including chairman and chief executive officer John Hoagland Jr., have resigned. Some influential church members are pressing Christian Science leaders for a full accounting of church spending on the television project. The move to television was controversial within the church from the first. Many officials were critical because it drained funds from the highly respected church newspaper...