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...weaponry. In last month's exercises, for example, the Marines were unpleasantly surprised to learn that their high-tech, heat-seeking sights don't work through glass, meaning they can't peer through windows and into rooms where the enemy lurks. "There is no technological magic wand you can wave over these problems to make them go away," says Marine Major Dan Sullivan, who is leading the corps's efforts to improve its ability to conduct urban warfare...
Making personal transport less damaging to the planet means looking beyond cars as well. "If you could wave a magic wand and make every car fuel efficient, it wouldn't solve all our problems," says Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research in Manchester, N.H. "It is still very energy intensive to move a 2,000- or 3,000-pound machine." His solution: the Segway, the recently unveiled high-end scooter that goes up to 13 m.p.h., is powered by an electric motor and runs on just a nickel's worth of electricity a day. The batteries today are standard nickel...
...Johnston Gate, a lone Middlesex County sheriff’s deputy used a handheld metal detector to check hundreds of people seeking entrance to the Yard. Even elderly women in wheelchairs were not exempt from a once-over with his beeping wand...
...Johnston Gate, a lone Middlesex County sheriff’s deputy used a handheld metal detector to check hundreds of people seeking entrance to the Yard. Even elderly women in wheelchairs were not exempt from a once-over with his beeping wand...
Last Sunday night, several members of the Harvard Magic Club huddled around a long table in the Kirkland House dining hall. Not a single wand or cone-shaped, rabbit-producing hat was present; the members were clad in jeans and shuffling playing cards. Asked what they had most in common with Harry Potter, darling of the magic world, no one responded except J. Benjamin St. Clair ’04, who muttered, “Hideous birthmarks...