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...Israeli pilot Rafi Marek was 90 seconds into his flight from Mombasa, Kenya, at about 3,000 ft., when he felt an unexpected thump. He thought it was the impact of a bird hitting the fuselage of his Arkia charter Boeing 757 carrying 261 Israelis home from a beach vacation. But he wondered if something far more frightening might have been after his plane when crew members spotted two white stripes of smoke streaming past the jet's tail, only 100 yards away. Two shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles had just missed blowing up Marek's plane: the launcher...
That all changed earlier this year when Scarpa learned about IE-Engine, a privately held software firm based in Waltham, Mass., that promised to make it easier and cheaper to buy health insurance. IE-Engine set up a pilot program that helped ABB streamline its health-care providers in North Carolina from three to one with no reduction in quality of care. The system enabled Scarpa and his staff to make that decision in half the time it would have taken before. From the receipt of bids to the comparative analysis, the entire process was handled via the Internet...
...Bryson's previous work in both subject matter and tone, but it is still sprinkled with amusing anecdotes. There's a hair-raising encounter on a terrifyingly unstable train to Mombasa - dubbed the Lunatic Express by locals - and a storm-buffeted flight over Nairobi in a prop plane. The pilot, Bryson writes, "was bobbing about ... like someone ... being attacked by fire ants." The best travel writing, Bryson says, "makes people interested in the experience you've had, and that's harder than folks think." This, he is careful to point out, is not the same as being an interesting person...
They also say Education for Social Action is intended to be a pilot for a larger program in student development. Ultimately, after several such courses have been developed, new members will pass through a standard progression of courses—one each semester they’re involved in the organization...
...LAIRCM automatically detects, tracks and jams infrared missiles, sending a high-intensity laser beam into the missile's seeker, disrupting its guidance system. No action is required by the crew. The pilot simply is informed that a threat missile was detected and jammed. "Inexpensive, yet lethal, surface-to-air missiles have proliferated around the globe and unfortunately are in the hands of our potential adversaries," says Arnold Welch, vice president for Infrared Countermeasures Programs at Northrop Grumman's Defensive Systems Division in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. "It is essential that our military pilots and air crews have this sophisticated type...