Topic: David Crane

PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- New Jersey-based NRG Inc. on Sunday rejected a $6.1 billion takeover bid from Exelon.

WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- Anti-Submarine Warfare has been the Cinderella of global navies for the past century, and unfortunately the situation hasn't changed much today.

WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) -- U.S. warship designers for decades have ignored the fundamental lesson of the hit movie "Iron Man" -- armored protection matters.

TORONTO, May 21 (UPI) -- An undercover and deliberately suspicious Canadian broadcaster's investigation of Ontario casino pay-outs found loopholes for possible money-laundering.

WASHINGTON, April 16 (UPI) -- What matters most with weapons systems is whether the systems will actually work reliably, and how much punishment they can take.

WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) -- More than 40 years ago, there was a British heavyweight boxing champion called Henry Cooper who could do everything -- except take a punch.

WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- Russian and Chinese naval weapons designers know they lack the resources and the technology to match the awesome power of U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups ship for ship and plane for plane. So instead, for decades, they have opted for asymmetrical solutions to the problem of killing U.S. super carriers. And they have come up with some lethal weapons.

WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- Watching the PBS documentary about life on the USS Nimitz, it is easy to imagine that America's nuclear-powered super aircraft carriers are unsinkable. But no ship is unsinkable, and when it comes to aircraft carriers, a lot of the best naval warfare submarine, torpedo and ballistic missile designers in the world have worked long and hard for decades to come up with new ways to sink them.

NEW YORK, March 1 (UPI) -- Jay Harnick, founder of Theaterworks/USA, the nation's largest touring children's theater company, died in a New York nursing home at 78. Since Mr. Harnick helped found Theaterworks/USA in 1961, the company has performed to millions of children annually i

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (UPI) --