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That's the idea, anyway. In fact, there are serious questions about the FCS. Only two of its 44 key technologies are mature enough to generate reliable cost estimates, according to the Government Accountability Office. The Army has so far spent $18 billion trying to get the FCS to work and plans on spending $21 billion more before it gets a formal green light for production in 2013, when key performance tests still will not have been done. And the FCS's vaunted mobility has already been scrapped; the Army has abandoned plans to transport all those vehicles...
...grownup things rarely are. Born in London and raised there by an actor father and a film-producer mother (as a girl, Allen appeared as a lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth and was mentored by, among others, Joe Strummer), Allen, 23, appears to have embraced a slightly more serious view of what pop can be. Not that you can tell from the hooks. Produced by Greg Kurstin of the retro-pop duo the Bird and the Bee, the music robs every genre it can in the pursuit of anything that might stick in your ears. There's a klezmer-inspired...
...This happened at the end of a small press conference. One of my colleagues brought me a photo of this pair of pants. I said, very nonchalantly, "Look--great designers like Dolce & Gabbana copy us!" I was joking, it was not serious, but naturally the press picked up on it and splashed it all over the headlines...
American businesses have a particular interest in personal health, since worker illness costs them billions each year in insurance claims, sick days and high staff turnover. A 2008 survey of major U.S. employers found that 64% consider their employees' poor health decisions a serious barrier to affordable insurance coverage. Now some companies are tackling the motivation problem head on, using tactics drawn from behavioral psychology to nudge their employees to get healthy...
Betty saw golf not only as a game but also as a serious profession for women who loved it as passionately as she did. She dedicated herself to all aspects of it--playing, organizing tournaments, establishing rules and more. While my fellow players and I do not have it as hard as Betty did in an era when women's sports were barely a blip on the radar, we have derived our own mission from the work of Betty and the other incredible first women of golf. Even with all the progress we have made since the LPGA's inception...