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...Ramsey is perhaps best known for his workthat contributed to the creation of a technologyknown as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Withvast military and lay applications, GPS allowspeople to pinpoint their geographic location witha small handheld device...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinton Names Prof. to Council | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Ramsey is perhaps best known for his work that contributed to the creation of a technology known as the Global Positioning System (GPS). With vast military and lay applications, GPS allows people to pinpoint their geographic location with a small handheld device...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ramsey Appointed to Science Medal Committee | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Just what that something was may be hard to pinpoint. Of the six launch fiascoes, three involved new, profit-driven rockets: the bulked-up Delta 3, with twice the lift-off muscle of its Delta 2 ancestor; and the Athena 2, a smaller rocket with less propulsive oomph but a bargain price tag. The most recent Titan flub appears to involve misfirings of the rocket's upper stage, a $1.23 billion mistake that may have been caused by badly loaded software. Other miscues have included everything from an electrical short, which caused another Titan to explode, to faulty guidance, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Is Rocket Science! | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...partly on a field-hockey scholarship, and still find myself trying to correct in others the mistakes I made in games 20 years ago.) We sit on lawn chairs yelling helpful instructions to our kids and their coaches. And at night we go to bed wondering if we can pinpoint the moment when we became our dads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Only a Game! | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...picture of Milosevic as a complex leader split between two desires: to save face and to save his own skin. As the air war intensifies, Chernomyrdin aides say, Milosevic has started sleeping in a different bed every night and swapping cell phones for fear NATO will use them to pinpoint him for an air strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Distracted Peacemaker | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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