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Ferris directs the church's four-part mixed choir, which he created upon his arrival in 1958, and plays the organ at church services. He also edited the University's third hymn book and designed the Isham Organ, heralded upon its installation as the largest American-built tracker action organ in the United States...
...improve U.S. subs' tracking ability, one option is to "go active" by electronically transmitting a "ping" that would locate a target when the sound waves bounce back from it. The problem: echoes from the ping would also disclose the location of the tracker, even if the ping were generated from a third source, such as a buoy towed behind the sub or dangled in the water by a helicopter. The alternative is nonacoustic detection. For example, researchers are exploring ways of sensing a submarine's magnetic field, its thermal radiation or the turbulence in its wake. Some are even studying...
...tracking system built by Thomas Hutchinson, a University of Virginia engineer. Using a technology developed for jet-fighter pilots, Hutchinson's device measures the reflection of light from the retina to determine where on a computer display the eye is gazing. A person equipped with the eye tracker simply looks at a command on the screen and the computer executes it. "The last thing to go in the body is the eye muscle," says Hutchinson. "With this system we have an opportunity to free minds that are trapped inside bodies that do not work...
Slim and lithe in khaki pants, he moves like a deer over the desert floor -- not surprising since he spent his first 40 years in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as a wildlife biologist and tracker. "I slept on the ground most of my life," he told me. "No tent. Only a tarpaulin in case it rained. One night I woke up with a rhino sniffing my body. I just lay quietly. Another time I found a lion had eaten a whole cow next to me while I lay sleeping." He looks at his students and instructors, then out across...
...yard's most celebrated product is the notorious Monkey Business, which helped drive Gary Hart's presidential campaign onto the rocks. Broward's most popular boat, however, is an 80-ft. starter, or "yuppie special," that sells for $2 million. The typical buyer is a fast tracker between 35 and 40 who yens for something more than an "off the peg" Hatteras 61-footer. "I just got a personal check in the mail for $1.3 million," says Ken Denison, vice president for new boat sales and construction. "The guy said it would be O.K. We looked into...