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• Marines in combat still seek better body armor
The decision results from a survey of more than 1,000 Marines, many of whom reported that their flak jackets, which cost the Marine Corps more than $100 million, were too heavy and restrictive. "The Marine Corps is developing an Improved Modular ...
• Winter storm locks Midwest, Northeast in ice
In Marysville, Wash., north of Seattle, heavy snow collapsed part of the roof Monday at the Whitley Evergreen factory, which makes modular buildings. No one was injured, but inspectors were dispatched to make sure other buildings in the business park ...
• Readers offer ideas for auto bailout
... seven years and then we're ready for a new one is very troubling," said Crandall, a former St. Louis urban planner and landscape architect. "This is why we should make cars that are designed to last for much longer and have interchangeable or modular ...
• What a trip! Space station turns 10
It was supposed to be only a temporary module, and unlike every other modular component of the station it had a very limited lifetime. Its main purpose was political, to avoid having the initial space station configuration look too "Russian." Even ...
• Report Card: Is FEMA ready this time?
Then: The agency purchased modular and manufactured homes for use in flood plains that were not allowed under its own regulations. Many contracts for some 27,000 travel trailers that were bought "off the lot" did not specify FEMA minimum requirements ...