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...night, when you are essentially floating in your bed. The hardest part of his job was having to take blood from his fellow astronauts. "He was afraid he would hurt somebody while he was drawing blood," one friend and fellow pilot says. They had been serving together on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise when McCool got word he had been accepted by NASA. "I know he struggled with that decision, and I know that it was a family decision," he says of the father of three sons. "Willie was very much a family man and a good friend...
...wake of Sept. 11, it's not surprising that many Americans immediately wondered whether terrorism could have been responsible. A shoulder-launched missile could, in theory, bring down an aircraft, but Columbia was well beyond a missile's altitude limit at the time the ship disintegrated. The idea that an explosive could have been smuggled aboard got no serious attention. It would be almost impossible for even the most committed terrorist to breach NASA security, all the more so with the heightened protection thrown up around a ship carrying an Israeli astronaut celebrated for having participated in the attack...
...trailing the 1.4 million-member U.S. armed forces in terms of technology and equipment. Beijing has been transforming its military into a leaner, more effective fighting machine. This year it plans to cut troop numbers by 200,000, bringing its total to 2.3 million, while upgrading its strategic missiles, aircraft, warships and submarines...
...military capability that's being developed could be turned against the U.S. or its allies in the future." That fear was exacerbated two weeks ago when a major general in the P.L.A. threatened the destruction of hundreds of American cities if the U.S. attacks Chinese territory?including warships or aircraft?in a conflict over Taiwan. Beijing insisted that the general was speaking for himself. And for now, according to most estimates, there are fewer than 30 Chinese missiles capable of hitting the continental U.S. with a nuclear warhead...
...June public offering on the Frankfurt stock exchange set off a stampede by investors. The shares were more than seven times oversubscribed, not least because MTU's sales are rising briskly and its cash flow more than doubled in the first quarter as the aircraft industry picked up again. KKR's total equity investment in MTU was $326 million. Following the IPO, KKR has returned $590 million to its investors, and it continues to hold a 29% stake, valued at $390 million. KKR tripled its money in 19 months...