"I've been waiting for this for so long, " Mr. Waas said of the Summer Games.

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Mr. Waas, a swim coach at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.

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Paul Waas, a self-proclaimed "Olympics junkie, " has given his wife strict instructions: "If you see something swimming related even if it doesn't say anything specific don't mention it, because I may interpret it a certain way, " he said.

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It's a tall order, but Air Force officials hope that an on-board wide-area airborne surveillance system (WAAS), which uses 96 cameras to generate nearly 275TB of data every hour, and a supercomputer hosting the equivalent of 2, 000 single-core servers will fit the bill.

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