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Hughes, a billionaire movie producer, aviator, and businessman, announced in 1953 that he would devote the wealth of his aircraft manufacturing firm to a scientific institute probing “the genesis of life itself...
...President Bush's speech outlining a new approach to Iraq warned that it could not be stabilized without "addressing" Iran. But his plans to move aircraft carriers and missile defense batteries into the region signaled that by "address" he wasn't envisaging the sort of diplomatic engagement advocated by the Iraq Study Group. Bush and other officials have amplified their denunciations of Iranian "meddling" in Iraq, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated that the President had signed an order authorizing a broad military campaign against Iranian networks operating inside Iraq. In an interview with TIME, Rice even said that...
...even before the meeting ended, U.S. reporters were already pressing Gates to talk about U.S. intentions towards Iran-especially in light of the U.S. sending a Patriot missile unit to the Gulf and a U.S. aircraft carrier to the region as a show of force. In his mild voice, Gates said Iran was playing a "very negative" role in Iraq and thinks the U.S. is "tied down" by its mission in Iraq. Then, with none of the bluster of Rumsfeld but all the punch, Gates delivered an unmistakable message-the U.S. was, by shuffling military assets on Iran's doorstep...
...Then Gates's party climbed on a slate-gray C17 flown by an Air Force reserve unit from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. C17s are the low-slung, fat-bellied high-performance cargo aircraft that move everything the U.S. government needs moved, from presidential limos to Humvees. Today, their load was the Secretary of Defense and his straphangers. The plane has a massive interior space, with small canvas seats along the sidewalls for crew and most travelers. But parked square in the middle of the plane's floor on this trip was the Pentagon's "Silver Bullet," actually...
...pilots are by nature a cool lot: when one of the Air Force's highest-ranking generals, Lt. Gen. Gene Renuart, popped up to the cockpit, they spent a more than an hour shooting the breeze with him. Then the pilots armed the countermeasures to defend the aircraft in case it was attacked, the interior lights were dimmed, and only the green glow of military lights shined on the Silver Bullet...