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Other members of the armed forces have taken the drastic measure of deserting without fleeing the U.S. Navy Petty Officer Pablo Paredes, 23, a weapons-control technician who refused on Dec. 6 to board the U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard to help transport 3,000 Marines to Iraq, has been assigned to janitorial work while awaiting a ruling on his conscientious-objector application. Raised in the Bronx, Paredes joined the Navy because he was eager to get an education. Nearly five years later, he says he is ashamed to be a member of the same military responsible for the abuses...
...long run, Lenovo wants to turn its own name into a glamorous brand. But if its image in China is any indication, that'll prove tricky. Li Yong, a 35-year-old technician, spent last Friday shopping for an IBM ThinkPad in Beijing. It will be his third, and probably his last. "IBM's laptops are the most stable in the world. I won't take the risk of buying one with Lenovo technology." Lenovo will soon have to make the rest of the world think otherwise...
...snatched Carr from the lake bottom. Another onlooker, Nick Nunnally, an emergency medical technician, performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation...
...this was a puppet show with marionettes and the student leaders were the puppeteers, I’m like a puppet technician who untangles the strings,” Corker said...
...called another time, brimming with excitement, to tell me that she had just unscrewed the back of Grandma’s computer and rearranged a cable or two—and now it was up and running again. She said the Dell technician gave wonderful instructions, and wasn’t I proud...