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...space telescopes pointed back to earth. From 164 miles up, their optical sensors can snap clear photographs of objects no larger than a paperback novel on the ground. The two Lacrosse satellites, same price tag, with solar-power panels that stretch the length of half a football field, have radar-imaging cameras that can see through clouds and even the dust storms that swirl around India's Pokhran test site. In a crisis, at least one of the four birds can be positioned over a target 24 hours a day, sending photos that can be on the President's desk...
...danger of EMI is so great that it hasbecome an offensive military weapon. "Jamming," orthe use of EMI to disable enemy radar andcommunications systems, is an integral part ofmodern warfare. Planes, ships and ground-basedtransceivers equipped with jamming electronics canthrow millions, or in some cases, billions ofwatts of energy at enemy targets...
...advanced weaponry and maintaining combat readiness. "With missiles going farther and planes faster, we need more space," insists Air Force Colonel FRED PEASE. But a coalition of environmental, recreation and peace groups says the reservations would create a giant supersonic battleground where low-flying aircraft and the flares and radar-jamming aluminum-silicon fibers they drop pose a threat to wildlife and motorists. "Have you ever had an F-16 scream over your head at 200 feet?" asks GRACE POTORTI, director of the Rural Alliance for Military Accountability, based in Reno, Nev., which is joining a lawsuit against the Defense...
...vast maternal instincts ignore the considerable influence she has exerted over the years. More than one White House veteran will say without prompting that Currie got her job in part to bring some diversity to the West Wing. That dismissive attitude just helped Currie fly below the radar...
...fear suffused the White House last fall when members of President Clinton's economic team began their first, tentative debate on tinkering with Social Security. Even on internal schedules that do not leave the building, they cloaked their sessions under the name "special-issue meetings." To stay below the radar, they skulked into the office of National Economic Council chairman Gene Sperling rather than the Roosevelt Room, where so many other grand strategies had been incubated in the past. Staff members considered likely to leak were not invited...