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...skills haven’t been honed in the past year. They have. But almost overshadowing that improvement has been the enormous growth in Howell’s confidence. And Murphy has certainly taken notice, promoting Howell above Sonkur and Danny Tanner, Butler’s primary backup last season...
...sessions), his teammate Somjit Jongjohor could well become Thailand's third-ever gold medalist. Somjit, the 2003 world amateur flyweight champion, is a slick boxer with a talent for weaving out of trouble and counterpunching his way to victory. But even if he stumbles in Athens, Somjit has a backup career?like Somluck, he's recorded his own album...
When Moats saw the officer drawing near, he immediately rolled up the car windows and started the engine as another officer arrived on the scene for backup. Moats began screaming and yelling, thereby attracting a crowd of onlookers, Catalano said...
...that has been confirmed," he said in a local radio interview. But Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who heads the Athens organizing committee, insisted "such an incident cannot affect the Games. All our venues have uninterrupted power supply systems." So at least in theory, if another blackout occurred next month, the backup system would make the Olympic venues islands of light in a darkened city. Last week's blackout was the most dramatic in Europe so far this year. But Greece's electricity problems are hardly isolated. A fire at a Madrid substation last week caused a blackout through much...
Cassini-Huygens is widely thought to be the last of NASA's great Cadillac probes--multibillion-dollar ships stuffed with instruments and complex backup systems. In the planning stage for 19 years, the craft cost $1.4 billion to design and build and nearly $2 billion to fly. When NASA adopted its "faster, better, cheaper" philosophy in the 1990s, it drove the cost of its unmanned ships down to the range of a couple of hundred million dollars--mostly by relying on off-the-shelf parts and eliminating redundant systems...