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...Kenobi." The Pentagon is still looking for the right technique and technology - at the right price. The parameters are simple: lonely kids should be able to "boot up" Dad or Mom on their home computer. "The child should be able to have a simulated conversation with a parent about generic, everyday topics," reads the Defense Department's solicitation seeking companies to develop the concept. "For instance, a child may get a response from saying 'I love you,' or 'I miss you,' or 'Good night.'" The goal: reassuring little ones whose parent has suddenly disappeared. "The children don't quite understand...
...Pentagon's Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury wants deploying parents to record their end of conversations before they ship out. Shilling's proposal says more than 80% of kids between the ages of 3 and 5 in the U.S. regularly use computers and that communicating with a "parent" via one would "capture their interest and imagination." Companies interested in participating have until Jan. 14 to tell the Pentagon just how they would do it. Sometime around April, the Pentagon plans to award as many as three contracts of up to $100,000 each...
...ready for a long fight. "We are prepared to do what it takes," says David Aitken, 54, who used to ring the church bells. For the moment, at least, the diocese is treating its errant flock with patience. "Suffering the closing of your parish is like watching a parent die," says Monsignor Bonzagni. "If the parishioners at St. Stan's need to mourn this way, we will do nothing to interfere...
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Palin, Sarah • yet another descendant of is given a ridiculous name •yet another patently false statement - "Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time" (really, they're doing all that during the New Year's break?) - is insistently made...