Word: armes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Whipple created Operation Moonwatch in 1956 to arm people all over the world, from high school students to housewives, with small telescopes and stopwatches, to create teams of novice stargazers to monitor the skies for satellites...
...these five years, we want to arm the people who want to do clinical and translational research with the tools, support, and nurturing they need to address diseases,” said Steven D. Freedman, the associate dean for clinical and translational research...
...Clearly, interest has been high, with 1,500 competitors entered in events ranging from soccer and cricket to volleyball, softball and arm-wrestling. The Games are staged according to strict Islamic codes, meaning that girls are separated from boys, staging their events in a large gymnasium. Inside, away from the eyes of men, some players remove their hijabs, but most prefer to keep their heads, and skin, covered...
...once flush with rivers and lakes, but most of the water escaped into space due to the planet's low gravity and thin atmosphere. What's left is believed to be concentrated at the poles. Phoenix will soon begin digging for it, extending an 8 ft. (2.35 m) robotic arm outfitted with a movable scoop. First, however, scientists will use landing-site images to build a virtual 3-D computer map of the terrain so they can operate the arm from Earth. "The arm itself is kind of dumb," said Smith, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson...
...theory, the idea of a war with Iran should be a non-starter in a nation whose war-weary public has no appetite for further military adventures in the Middle East, no matter how determined Iran may be to get a nuclear weapon or to arm and train anti-U.S. forces in Iraq. Republican candidates on Capitol Hill, already facing their worst electoral prospects in a generation, are equally disinclined to support military action against Iran. Even Bush's own cabinet officials, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have been repeatedly cool...