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April 13--University of Virginia at Norfolk...
...area. It was founded in 1996 by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince, who saw a growing need for private security work by governments overseas and private firms. Since then, the company has trained more than 50,000 military and law-enforcement personnel just south of the Virginia border, near Norfolk, at its 6,000-acre facility, which it calls "the finest private firearms-training facility in the U.S." The facility boasts several target ranges and a simulated town for urban-warfare training. It is so advanced that some of the U.S. military's active-duty special-ops troops have trained...
...that the same might be true for humans. And that could--though it's theoretical at this point--lead to powerful new treatments for infertility and perhaps even for staving off menopause. "If it's true," says Roger Gosden, scientific director of the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., "it's as big a paradigm shift in ovarian biology as Dolly and cloning were for embryology...
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...BNSF are rebounding from the uncertainty that followed a wave of mergers in the 1990s. The railroads are laying tracks, buying locomotives and hustling to win business from the trucking industry. Traffic is up at each of the big four railroads--Union Pacific and BNSF in the West and Norfolk Southern and CSX in the East. "People from all over the world, from Europe to China, come to look at our system," boasts Matthew Rose, BNSF's chairman, president and CEO. They marvel, he says, at technological innovations like BNSF's intermodal transport system, which moves containers from faraway ports...