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...costs can be slashed because expensive life-support systems such as oxygen supplies, ejection seats, fire-suppression systems and armor aren't needed. The nimbleness and speed of today's fighters aren't limited by weak engines or fuselage stress limits but by the human body's inability to withstand high G-forces, a problem that would disappear in a pilotless plane...
...costs can be slashed because expensive life-support systems such as oxygen supplies, ejection seats, fire-suppression systems and armor aren't needed. The nimbleness and speed of today's fighters aren't limited by weak engines or fuselage stress limits but by the human body's inability to withstand high G-forces, a problem that would disappear in a pilotless plane...
...This week the Writers Guild of America is due back at the bargaining table with producers, but there's a problem: studios used to be mom-and-pop shops, and avuncular mogul Lew Wasserman played peacemaker with unions. Today's studios are owned by conglomerates that can more easily withstand (and may even favor) a production slowdown. It's hard to keep up without a scorecard. Here's yours...
...year's Sydney Olympics, when the Chinese team placed a disappointing 10th. To raise its game to the next level, officials realized the nation needed to send its best players abroad to rub shoulders with the world's greatest hoopsters, despite concerns that China's fledgling league might not withstand an exodus of its headliners. Although Wang had been selected by the Mavericks in the second round of the 1999 draft, his team?the army-run August 1 Rockets? had refused to let him go. Only this year, in the wake of the Sydney debacle, did the dutiful soldier...
...Playdough in the hands is as pliant as the Playdough in the head. This drive need only be guided and focused by educators further down the line, as the planted seeds of inquiry and thought grow to fruition. If the paralyzing awe of the world can be buttressed to withstand adolescence, the fertile mental fields and greater freedoms of youth will couple with this wonder to create a lust for lifelong learning...