NYT: Pentagon's New Goal: Put Science Into Scripts

Pentagon's New Goal: Put Science Into Scripts
New York Times 08/04/05
author: David M. Halbfinger
c. 2005 New York Times Company

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 - Tucked away in the Hollywood hills, an elite group of scientists from across the country and from a grab bag of disciplines - rocket science, nanotechnology, genetics, even veterinary medicine - has gathered this week to plot a solution to what officials call one of the nation's most vexing long-term national security problems.

Their work is being financed by the Air Force and the Army, but the Manhattan Project it ain't: the 15 scientists are being taught how to write and sell screenplays.

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