Yesterday, I published a story, Special Forces Units Ignore Memo, Save Lives, highlighting the fact that members of the Army’s elite Special Forces community chose to ignore a 2007 Department of Defense memo which designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, as the “only approved credibility assessment technologies” in [...]
War Stories Prove Voice Stress Technology Works (Update)
December 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Solution Found to Buffalo Wings Shortage
November 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Almost two weeks ago, a USA TODAY article warned about a shortage of chicken wings (a.k.a., “Buffalo Wings”): With U.S. chicken production set to fall for the first time in 36 years and demand for chicken wings on the rise as hungry football fans flock to sports bars, restaurants are running into an age-old problem: [...]
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What is Sniper’s Role at Mount Everest?
April 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Wired reports that climbers on Mount Everest’s south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China’s Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next week. More incredibly, the magazine reports, one blogger “saw lots of military staff and one solider carrying a very sophisticated sniper type of gun.” [...]
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