Word: barreled
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With oil prices heading toward $79 a barrel, the age of the solar panel is dawning at last, and electronics companies from the land of the rising sun are leading the way. Decades of money-losing research and development are finally paying off at Japanese electronics giants like Sharp, Sanyo, Mitsubishi and Kyocera, who together control about 50% of the global market. "The solar units of these companies are already real businesses, and they are only going to become larger parts of their operations," says Yuki Sugi, a Lehman Bros. analyst in Tokyo who covers Sharp and Sanyo...
...world is coalescing" against Iran's ambitions, and wouldn't rule out sanctioning military force against the country. Analyst Karim Sadjadpour of the International Crisis Group says that Iranian officials are making good on their rhetoric to continue enrichment activities and "feel confident that with oil at $64 a barrel, the last thing the Europeans want is further sanctions on Iranian...
WHAT IS NEXT FOR AMERICA IN SPACE? An outsider commission is needed to investigate the Columbia accident--and must report to the President, not Congress, since Congress has shown itself unable to think about anything but pork barrel when it comes to space programs...
...Core ?Bullet ?Explosive ?Barrel...
...Little Boy" worked much like firing a gun. A small explosive propelled a uranium "bullet" down a 6-ft. (1.8-m) barrel into a uranium core, triggering nuclear fission. The bomb never hit the ground. To maximize the damage, a radar proximity fuse in the tail detonated the bomb 1,900 ft. (580 m) above Hiroshima...