Game lets GI's make friends, not war.

• Author: Williams, Robert H.
• Position: TECH TALK: A TIP-SHEET ON THE LATEST GADGETS

* Soldiers not only must know how to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, they also are expected to acquire the know-how that will enable them to get along with the home folk in those two troubled lands.

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A computer game developed to train up to 20,000 ground troops a year would help them gain these social skills. The game was created by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., and BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Mass., via a Defense Advanced Research...