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NOTICE TO HAWAII MARINE READERS We hope you will enjoy this special readers during the holiday season when This special edition, published each edition of the Windward Sun Press, the Hawaii Marine is not published. year, is in no way connected to the created especially for Hawaii Marine Marine Corps or the U.S. government. HAWAII MARINE Military Sun Press VOL. XXXII NO. 33 One Dollar And Thirty Cents Voluntary Payment For Home Delivery Per Four-Week Period WEEK OF JANUARY 2-8, 1992 Sun Preis stall OMIT Sun Press senior writer Jerry Murphy portrays "Father Time" with New Year's baby Jordan Busokrus. Research pushes agency to high-tech cutting edge by JIM GARMONE chips. These chips use less elec- associated with any new tech- American Forces Information tricity and are less susceptible nology. To encourage companies to temperature extremes and to experiment, the agency went The Defense Advanced Re- more resistant to radiation than into partnership with the user search Projects Agency has a today's common silicon-based community and the companies. reputation of being ahead of the chips. In short, they are perfect This allows companies to learn cutting edge of technology. for modern weapon systems. the technology while giving the Typically, however, agency The agency developed the ma- United States a competitive researchers are associated with terial in the late 1970s. If doing production base for a leading- basic research. These people business the old way, industry edge technology. make the breakthroughs, and probably would not be using gal- The agency looked for areas then someone else applies their lium arsenide chips until 2000 the gallium arsenide chips could results to new weapon systems. or 2005. be used in fielded systems. One But problems arise with this "In 1988, we believed the promising system was the AN/ approach. process was at such a stage of APS-137 inverse synthetic aper- "What typically happens is maturity, it could be used by ture radar manufactured by that it takes manufacturers 15 manufacturers," Pra bhakar said. Texas Instruments and used to 20 years to incorporate new "We didn't want this technology aboard Navy P-3C patrol air- technologies into their products," to languish on the shelf, and it craft. said Arati Prabhakar, director was believed (the agency) could "We were specifically looking of the agency's microelectronics bridge the gap to get the tech- for a fielded system," Prabhakar office. "We decided to try to get nology out." said. "We did not want to build new technologies into systems Prabhakar said part of the a new system. Upgrades of ex- Holiday spirit 40 faster." problem was simply giving isting systems extend the life One technology Prabhakar manufacturers experience systems Dental Technician First Class Enrique Cruz (center) and Capt. Alan Heisig (right) of the USS Blue F.idge in and usefulness of the present Andrade (fefl) director of the King's Fil -Am Home orphanage in the Philip,,;nes and her co-workers championed handling the new technology. at a fraction of the cost associ- gifts to Mode was gailium arsenide computer She said financial risks are See HIGH-TECH A-6 recently. A-2 Military Sun Press January 2-8, 1992 History included in Goldsberry's newest release LAW OFFICES OF Book offers aerial views of islands JOSEPH P.H. AHUNA, JR. By JANINE TULLY Staff Writer CALL IF YOU ARE: WINDWARD - Steven Injured in an Auto Accident Goldsberry cringes at the Injured at Work thought that his new book, Suffering from Personal Injury "Over Hawaii," could be solely considered a slick, coffee-table book. 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"We have a lot of problems in Hawaii, and I didn't want to gloss over them," said Goldsberry, author of the 1989 Tony Cheng photo best-seller "Maui the Demigod." BIRD'S EYE VIEW: Windward writer Steven Goldsberry glances at his latest book, "Over Hawaii," which Goldsberry is an associate presents an aerial view of the Hawaiian islands and a thought-provoking narrative of its people and culture. ettb- AgtIN professor in the English Depart- ment at the University of close-up of the Koolaus, followed balance within the ecosystem, delves into the impact the free Hawaii and a contributing edi- by a two-page spread of a hang- said Goldsberry. "My hope is way will have on the conserva tor to "Honolulu" magazine. His glider soaring over the Pali that we can learn to balance and tion district it traverses. work has appeared in numerous Lookout. In one photo, Kaena manage our resources." "H-3 would make a great case literary journals, including "The Point juts out "like the barbed In the last chapter, "Modern for initiative. It is an example American Poetry Review." tip of a warrior's spear," while Hawaii," Goldsberry writes: "The of government without the con- The decision to write "Over in another scene, boaters soak 1990s are witnessing a struggle sent of the governed," Goldsberry Hawaii," was not done in haste, up the sun at their favorite spot between those who would save said. Goldsberry recalled. "I just didn't the Kaneohe Bay sandbar. our precious lands and those "Over Hawaii" is the fourth in want to write the standard - LENSES Photos and text also reflect who would pave them . In the "Wings Over America" series SOFT CONTACT beautiful Hawaii coffee-table the impact that tourism has had many ways, we have reached a of regionally focused illustrated book," he said. Daily on the islands - and on the saturation point." books. Produced by Weldon Tinted The publishers, however, visitors themselves. One of A staunch environmentalist, Owen Inc., the book is published agreed to his conditions, includ- Goldsberry's favorites is a photo Goldsberry is currently working by Mallard Press, of Extended Wear ing the suggestion that novelist an imprint showing a Japanese couple get- on an investigative piece on H- Bantam Doubleday Dell, in New Disposable James A. Michener write the ting married at a beachfront 3 for "Honolulu." Due to come York. It is available at Walden- foreword. Goldsberry said an- church in Aina Haina. 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