Word: boom
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...much of what we launch into orbit is monitored. And it's in rural Texas that much of the flaming wreckage of the shuttle Columbia landed in 2003. Sunday morning, it looked like Texas was in the path of danger again, when police received numerous reports of a sonic boom, a visible fireball and debris descending in various spots around the state. That debris, people figured, had to be space junk reentering from Tuesday's collision between an American communications satellite and a spent Russian satellite...
...library is a mecca for Lincoln scholars, the museum, opened in 2005, is pitched to appeal to ordinary visitors. Cannons boom at appropriate moments. Life-size figures of the Lincoln family stand poised in the light-filled central space. The late Tim Russert narrates a news report on the 1860 campaign, complete with television ads for Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge and Bell...
...last? Poor Venezuelans know from experience the pain of the bust that follows a boom, and with oil hovering around $40 a barrel some of Chávez's socialist agenda will surely face cuts after the referendum. Many people have begun asking why the radical who so boldly stands up to the U.S. can't confront the violent crime that plagues the country and leaves scores dead each weekend. "I know in my heart that life is better here than it was 10 years ago," says Tobías Caravallo, 42, who owns an electronics repair shop...
People close to Chávez concede privately that the corruption issue has hurt him. Perhaps that's why he recently warned supporters who have benefited from the oil boom that "this isn't a revolution of Hummers." As for the soaring crime rate, Chávez says that a major overhaul of the police and judiciary is coming. He'll have to hope that's enough to eke out a victory in a few days' time. "We will recognize the result, as we always have, whatever it is," he said last week. And if it doesn...
...surprisingly given Beijing's stated policy of encouraging the development of domestic technological innovation, Chinese firms like TCL are set to be the biggest winners in the 3G boom. Foreign telecom-equipment vendors like Nokia-Siemens, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent now account for roughly two-thirds of the 2G market. That figure is expected to decline when 3G is fully in place with foreign companies accounting for only about a third. The lion's share of the market will be taken by China's two largest equipment vendors, Huawei and ZTE, which will between them share about half...