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See the Facebook page for the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150598087817799&set=a.10150165103967799.309139.200008567798&type=1&theater&notif_t=photo_reply NNSY statement: AGREE OR DISAGREE--WHY/WHY NOT? Business should be treated as a HUMAN COMMUNITY? NNSY picture post with a variation of this quote: "For a human community, profit is the consequence of being effective in pursuit of your purpose or mission. Or, is a company first and foremost a machine for making money, and the people and relationships among them is secondary, they are simply "human resources" needed by this machine. It's not surprising that if we think in machine-like terms, we are going to be rather toxic to...

CVN 21 said to offer biggest changes in decades, seeking a ‘leap ahead’ in technology by Harold Kennedy The U.S. Navy is moving ahead with plans for its much-debated, next-generation aircraft carrier, now called CVN 21. The service has requested $1.5 billion in its fiscal year 2004 budget for research, development and engineering and advanced procurement for the ship. CVN 21 is scheduled to begin construction in 2007 and to be delivered in 2014, according to Rear Adm. Dennis M. Dwyer, the Navy’s program executive officer for aircraft carriers. The budget for the entire project “now stands at $11.7 billion,”...