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...when you're looking at 14 months of round-trip flight time between Earth and Mars and perhaps a 1 1/2-year stay on the planet to catch the next Earth-Mars alignment back home. Even if it were possible to build a ship big enough to carry all that cargo, you would still have to muscle the mammoth thing off the ground. At some point it simply becomes impossible to build a rocket big enough...
There was something a bit rich about Washington ordering other countries to place armed guards on certain flights entering the U.S., as Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge did on Dec. 29. After all, the country making the rules still does not inspect the vast majority of its cargo or all of its checked baggage at its airports, standard procedures in some countries. And America's several thousand armed air marshals have figured in 600 reports of misconduct from October 2001 to July 2003. Last year a marshal was fired for drawing his gun on a man who had stolen...
...Freestyle, which will be built on the same platform as the Five Hundred, is a crossover wagon that handles like a car but has the cargo space and functionality of an SUV. The rear compartment can be configured as either a third row of seats or an extra cargo area. Says Alan Baum, an analyst with the Planning Edge in Farmington Hills, Mich.: "The Freestyle is aimed at a market that is just developing rather than simply being a replacement for something...
...military was severely overstretched in fulfilling its missions. But more important, we have done nothing serious about homeland defense in the war against terrorism. We need guards for our nuclear power plants, dams and public facilities. We have done little to create the necessary border patrollers, customs agents and cargo-ship inspectors...
...into Britain. Home Secretary David Blunkett admits that he hasn't a clue. His Asylum and Immigration Bill, due for its second reading in Parliament this week, is designed to speed up appeals and removals, deal with dishonest claimants and tackle organized immigration crime and those who smuggle human cargo. In Germany, the number of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants has dropped dramatically over the past 10 years, particularly since laws were tightened in 1997. But even so, some 39,000 asylum seekers have entered the country so far this year, according to the U.N. - a number that dwarfs...