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States are shaping their sales pitches to appeal to the Defense chief's drive to transform the military into a nimbler high-tech force that can battle stateless threats like al-Qaeda. South Carolina is touting Shaw Air Force Base as the perfect staging area for F-16s to guard the East Coast from a terrorist air attack. Massachusetts insists that Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford and the Army's research center in Natick are ideal for studying the high-tech hardware Rumsfeld covets, since they're close to science centers like M.I.T. The state also hopes that...
...PROBLEM BE FIXED? The commission's 74 recommendations are designed to "transform" intelligence by undoing bureaucracies and smashing competing CIA, FBI and Pentagon fiefs. The report stresses the need to develop more human agents instead of relying so much on technology...
...trip of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice through Asia has briefly lifted this veil of ignorance. For seven days, Asia seeped into the consciousness of Americans. But soon it will be forgotten again. Few Americans know how dramatically Asia has changed. Fewer understand how the region will transform the world in the 21st century...
...Disparities and discrimination are problems that are associated with a white male power structure—the old boys network dominating academia, business, medicine, journalism, and virtually all areas of American society. If Summers is truly sincere in his concerns about diversity, he should implement a plan to transform this “club” into one that is genuinely inclusive...
...this idea that we could transform the meaning of the library,” says one student participant who asked not to be named. “It could become a less intense and more relaxed, playful environment...