Word: chunks
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...Rumsfeld got a fair chunk of what he wanted too: more special forces than Franks preferred, a faster race to Baghdad than the general had originally envisioned and a quicker start to the ground war than the Centcom chief had proposed. Rumsfeld also wanted the air and ground campaigns to start simultaneously; if war begins late next week, one will quickly follow the other. "Rumsfeld is particularly enamored of special-operations stuff, and Franks is less so, and that was reflected in how the Iraq plan came together," a senior Centcom officer says. "The two of them tugged and massaged...
Pick up a chunk of uranium ore (a low-yield variety, please, and don't hold it for long), and you will be surprised by its weight. Uranium is denser than lead. McArthur River ore is a glossy black that gleams like marble. It's easy to imagine the radioactive energy stored in this rock. Whatever your environmental stance, at McArthur River you can sense the elemental power of uranium, a clean-burning source of seemingly limitless electricity. And you can understand former Cameco CEO Bernard Michel's assessment: "The world is seeing a fresh start for nuclear power...
...came as a big relief early last week when NASA investigators determined that, yes, it was clearly a loose chunk of insulating foam that had damaged the shuttle Columbia's skin and led to its crack-up in the skies over Texas. Of course, they acknowledged, it was also possible that the ship actually started breaking up over California, and it might not have been foam that killed it, but a meteor. Or turbulence. Or an explosion in the wheel well. In fact, it began to seem that the only thing NASA could say with certainty was that nothing seemed...
...know Mike’s supposed to be “the party dude,” but he’s screwing two friends over. Well, I guess three if you count April. Also, the art was very well done, for something that totally destroyed a sizeable chunk of happy childhood memories. And I haven’t exactly been studying up on my mutant reptile reproductive physiology lately, but it appeared to work out well for them...
Like everything else in Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf is outsize, a chunk of frozen water bigger than Texas jutting off a continent that is half again as large as the U.S. It is deeply mysterious, for its ice, like the ice that covers the rest of Antarctica, conceals far more than it reveals. Three years ago, the Ross Ice Shelf started calving icebergs so big that they invited comparison with Massachusetts and Connecticut, and some of these bergs--including C-19, which broke off the shelf last May--lurk nearby, provoking consternation and wonder...