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...exhibition is like a toy store for grownups. The several thousand products on display range from such low-tech items as a concrete bunker and a machine for filling sandbags at high speed to a nonlethal directed-energy weapon that can heat a human body to an unbearable temperature and an "acoustic sniper finder" that uses eight microphones to locate an enemy shooter based on the sound from his rifle shot...
Part of the purpose of the exhibition is to speed up a sluggish procurement system. The Pentagon has failed for months, for example, to get into Iraq adequate protection against improvised explosive devices and is losing an average of a soldier nearly every day to those homemade bombs. The show brings more than 550 vendors to one site and helps compress a laborious Defense Department process by offering commanders proven equipment that is already commercially available...
Harvard kept the stroke rating constant and picked up some speed heading into the 1,000-meter mark. The Crimson overcame the early six-seat deficit by the 800-meter mark, and Harvard countered the Tigers’ surge at the Mass. Ave. Bridge to take a two-seat advantage...
...seat, said. “The first day or two practicing in the new lineup it was a little shaky as we all adjusted to the change, but after we had a chance to get comfortable in the new lineup the change helped us pick up some speed for racing...
...think that we are capable of more speed and are focusing over the next two weeks on bringing the best strokes we are capable of to every race,” sophomore four-seat Anne Conlin said. “We are trying to prepare so that, come Sprints, we are ready to race with not one or two but six fast boats across the course...