Word: piloting
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...policies. The integrity of this institution rests not just on tallying up its Nobel Prize count, but also in the fair treatment of its workers and in its social and environmental responsibility to the community. The next president should continue initiatives such as payment in lieu of taxes program (PILOT) of 2005, in which Harvard significantly increased its payments to Cambridge for the tax-exempt land it owns. Harvard’s neighborhood respectability is as important as its global prestige and its wealth and reputation oblige it to set just and moral standards...
...freshman drama? NBC is betting on it, confident that eventually a larger audience of women will find its way to Lights before May, when the network announces whether the show makes it to season two. Already in its new Wednesday slot, the show delivered its highest ratings since the pilot. Good news for the passionate core of believers at NBC who are trying to keep the series from going the way of dozens of less praiseworthy shows. "It takes enough people shouting that this is a wonderful show," says former NBC Entertainment President Warren Littlefield, who is now producing under...
...free wireless Internet they enjoy around town. After the pooch took a piece out of a utility meter reader, officials decided they needed a Fido-free system. The city built a small wireless-fidelity (wi-fi) network that transmits meter data from homes via the Web. The pilot worked so well that Corpus Christi dreamed big, using tax dollars to fund a $7.1 million, 147-sq.-mi. network that went live last month. Now park sunbathers can Web surf and this town of 300,000 is home to one of the largest wireless systems in the world...
...implement his plan. Pentagon sources say that Bush will nominate Navy Adm. William J. Fallon to replace Army Gen. John Abizaid as head of the U.S. military's Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fallon, 61, a Vietnam veteran and Navy pilot, has been head of Pacific Command since 2005. His choice comes as a surprise, because the Central Command has always been headed by either an Army or Marine general, and because Fallon has no direct experience in Iraq or Afghanistan. However, Bush has also picked an Iraq veteran, Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus...
...monitor planes taking off and landing at LAX, O'Hare or a handful of other impossibly busy airports. The SpaceNavigator improves the experience, by giving you a manageable way to, say, find a particular plane then zoom in and level off next to it, to get a pilot's view of the flightplan...