http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/20836 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/scholar-makes-robots-detect-land-mines <!--paging_filter--><p>On Oct. 10, 2005 — he remembers the date exactly — <a title="Thrishantha Nanayakkara " href="http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/directory/researchers/thrishantha-nanayakkara">Thrishantha Nanayakkara </a>was driving down a country road, headed for a science workshop at Jaffna Central College, a high school in the far north of <a title="" href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ce.html">Sri Lanka</a>. The event was designed to distract potential child soldiers from the allure of war. </p><p>His cell phone rang. It was a government official, with a tip-off. “Turn back,” the caller said, in so many words, “or you will be killed.”</p><p><a href="http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/engineering-technology/articles/scholar-makes-robots-detect-land-mines">read more</a></p> Thu, 28 May 2009 14:29:33 -0400 50443248 20835 at http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu