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...incoming RPG some 18 in. away from the Stryker, minimizing the round's ability to bore through its skin and injure those inside. So why didn't the Army anticipate such a problem? It did: future versions of the Stryker will sport four tons of custom-made, high-tech armor, but those currently bound for Iraq are early models, making the ungainly $100,000 cages a necessary, if temporary, fix. --By Mark Thompson
...past two years, this thirtysomething has been juggling as many as six free-lance projects at a time while taking on survival jobs like handing out Pepsi samples in Wal-Mart. "I'm barely scraping by," says Nieva-Woodgate, who commanded a six-figure salary during the tech boom. And, she adds, if landing free-lance work sounds tough, try getting paid for it: "You're such a small fry, companies pay you whenever the hell they feel like...
...economy that has lost 2.7 million jobs over the past two years, you might expect that at least a few out-of-work machinists or switchboard operators would migrate into health care. To some extent, they have. There's some anecdotal evidence of career switchers, particularly from high-tech fields. The poor economy has also pulled some nurses out of retirement or into extra shifts to support their families. But this worker shortage will require much more than that, because it's doubtful that the American education system in its current state can deliver the needed quantity of next-generation...
When Monster.com launched in 1994, the jobs website contained just a few hundred postings, nearly all of which sought tech workers. Today, job supersites like HotJobs.com and CareerBuilder.com along with Monster, host hundreds of thousands of listings for everything from marine mechanic to molecular biologist. But in a job market that is only beginning to warm up, these sites can start to feel like dark voids where resumes go in and offers seldom come out. Monster alone receives 40,000 new resumes a day. Says Monster founder Jeff Taylor: "Prepare for a competition." Here are some tips...
Even with the smell, the three still couldn’t wait to get off work and eat together. Bakken worked at Mellon Financial, Mujalli worked at a tech start-up and Traverso worked on a research project. They would meet up after work to lift, then ate at Uno’s (all-you-can-eat Tuesdays) or raced home to the Foreman Grill...