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...says both colleges have plans to expand their campuses into the surrounding neighborhoods, making his job as liaison between the City of Boston and the colleges even tougher...
Assistant Coach Jared Frayer also attended the competition and earned a third-place finish. He dominated the early-round matches, beating Cliff Moore 6-0, 1-0, and T.J. Enright 3-0, 6-0. Eric Larkin proved to be a tougher competitor, but Frayer eked out s 0-4. 7-2, 1-0 win. He also lost a close match to Jared Lawrence...
Defending troops against the new threat of suicide fighters is a major challenge to vendors. "Playing offense--killing the enemy--is pretty simple," said Karl Alizade, a Navy veteran and president of City-Safe, which makes bombproof containers and rooms. "But playing effective defense is much tougher." Dozens of Defense Department officials stopped at Med-Eng's booth to look at an armored suit designed to protect the soldiers who man the machine guns on top of vehicles and are especially vulnerable to shrapnel from roadside bombs. The Army has ordered more than 2,000 of the suits for Iraq...
...believes that the North, which in February declared that it was a nuclear power, may be preparing to prove it by testing a nuclear device. Seoul says it has no evidence for this, and there are suspicions that the U.S. could be stoking such fears merely to justify a tougher policy toward North Korea. If Pyongyang were to test a nuclear weapon, it might in fact play perfectly into Washington's hands, convincing the international community to get serious about imposing painful sanctions. "If North Korea takes such reckless actions as conducting a nuclear test, it will further deepen...
...Tougher Than Tough On the scarier side of robot technology are real-life battle-bots. Armed with an assault rifle and equipped with temperature and image sensors that detect and track targets, these machines can either shoot automatically or be controlled remotely. Two such robots are being used by South Korea and the U.S. in Iraq. Seoul plans to deploy such bots on its 250-km border with North Korea by 2011. Price: $79,000 each