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...Pentagon satellite perched 22,000 miles above the earth should pick up the rocket's flaming plume. The satellite will alert ground-based radars in Hawaii and Kwajalein, which will begin searching the northeastern skies for the intruder. In a fully deployed system, early-warning radars in Alaska, California, Britain, Greenland and Massachusetts would get the alarm. Updates on the target's path will pour into the U.S. Space Command's outpost at Cheyenne Mountain, Colo. Computers there will assemble a "weapons task plan" based on the incoming weapon's trajectory and any decoys trying to fool the U.S. interceptor...
...band's shorter wavelengths and advanced signal-processing capabilities give it the power to "draw" a clear image of the incoming warheads and surrounding decoys from up to 1,000 miles away. (Ultimately, the system's $500 million X-band radar will be based on storm-tossed Shemya Island, Alaska...
...other Latino ever to play in the NHL. You see a lot of unusual names on the back of hockey sweaters (Balmochnykh, Selanne, Satan), but Gomez still sticks out. He's the first Latino to make the NHL, and perhaps the first to try. Even though the Anchorage, Alaska, native needs an interpreter for Telemundo interviews, he's become a Latino hero. "Just because he doesn't speak the language doesn't mean he isn't proud. He's just lazy," says his father, Carlos, whose parents were illegal Mexican immigrants. "It's become such an issue that...
Gomez will get a chance to act like a celebrity when he goes back to Anchorage this summer, which is, after all, attached to Canada. It may come from a biased source, but his mother Dalia seems pretty sure her son is the most popular person in Alaska. "Jewel might be big, but I've heard she's canceled two concerts on people here," Dalia says. "Right now Scott is the big thing. Jewel is out of the picture." Especially if she can't show off the Stanley...
...Ernest Gruening '06, former United States Senator from Alaska, says Daniel Ellsberg '52 "should be given the equivalent of a Congressional medal of honor" for releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press. 4 - The University releases an affirmative action plan to comply with Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) regulations. Although increasing the number of minority employees, the plan draws criticism for keeping the hiring of women at a constant level. 5 - In his first major move as President, Bok lowers the male-female ratio for the Class of 1976 from...