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Each 377-ft. sub will feature highly sophisticated wake suppressors and pollution controls to mask its presence. A videocam system will replace the traditional optical periscope, making for more acute reconnaissance at night and in bad weather. Each vessel will have its own on-board computer network, packing more cyber-power into its 7,700 tons than the 65 attack subs that came before it put together. Eventually, the Navy plans to outfit the subs with "antitorpedo" torpedoes, which the Navy has fantasized about for decades...
...week President Clinton will unveil a defense budget for next year that includes a cool $1 billion for the vessels, as well as a recommendation to speed up their production. The fleet is ultimately expected to cost $63.7 billion and serve as the leading edge of a 50-attack-sub armada that the Navy wants for the 21st century. (A separate class of 18 strategic submarines, which serve as platforms for intercontinental ballistic missiles, will be downsized to 14.) But there is a growing sense that these new subs, designed to hunt other ships and launch land and sea attacks...
Boosters insist that much of the U.S. sub fleet's new post-cold war mission isn't about blowing things up. It is about protecting American power around the world without firing a shot, by visiting foreign ports along with other warships, implicitly flexing martial muscle. "The United States," says the Navy's official sub statement, "maintains a capabilities-based, multimission submarine force that is sized to satisfy peacetime requirements and is not sized to counter any country's threat...
...Toscanini's and Starbucks still serve up late-night caffeine highs, some Harvard students are choosing atmosphere over function when looking for late-night snacks. According to One Arrow Street Crepes' owner Jimmy E. Murray, "Harvard Students, especially the ladies, are appreciating the healthy alternative to the throngs of sub shops and pizza joints that populate the Square...
...required, they are conceptualizing, designing and facilitating the systems that others will execute. Some of us are learning now in order to go out later and do the same in other geographies, to provide the 900 million residents of India and Africa a chance to rise above their sub-human destitution. Those who remain in America are ensuring the continued quality of life of the 250 million here...