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...military value of the V-22. While the Marines insist the Osprey is ready for production, it has not been approved for combat maneuvers and lacks its required gun. The winds created by its dual 38-ft. rotors are so strong that landing in a desert kicks up sand "brownouts" that can blind pilots, and rescuing someone from the sea is made extremely difficult. Marines climbing down ropes from Ospreys in combat simulations aboard ships or oil platforms have to hit the deck and stay there until the aircraft departs or risk being blown overboard. Communications gear aboard the Osprey...
Five shooting bays allow officers to shoot at targets up to 50 feet away. A mock-up of a house stands in one corner, for hostage scenarios. The thick cement back wall of the range is pock-marked with bullet holes. At the wall's base, in piles of sand, lie hundreds of flattened bullets...
PANDAS One main and three smaller enclosures; two ponds; two sand wallows...
Kamen is the founder of DEKA Research of Manchester, N.H. and has won numerous prizes and awards for his mechanical contributions to medical science. He invented the portable insulin pump and a wheelchair that can negotiate stairs, sand and gravel...
...photos and itty-bitty stories about meteor showers and upcoming shuttle launches. The glossy Expedia Travels is more substantial but thoroughly conventional, despite gestures toward matters digital. In a story on Hawaii, the writer plans his trip online, but otherwise the journey is a standard odyssey of surf and sand. Travelocity, whose format is broken up into zippy information-age chunks and boxes, doesn't exactly push the envelope either. If a reader didn't know that these magazines were linked to websites, he might not guess...