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...decades of absorbing the high- energy neutrons that are released during nuclear reactions, the walls of Yankee Rowe's reactor vessel have begun to weaken. Just how much is not clear. This so-called reactor embrittlement is potentially the most dangerous problem faced by aging atomic plants, because a crack in these walls could expose the highly radioactive reactor core...
...would crack the anti-Saddam coalition in other ways as well, it was feared. During the inevitably long war, Bush would be more willing to act unilaterally in an idiotic attempt to restore Pax Americana--thereby destroying the possibility for future collective security in the region, which would already be endangered by Israel's participation...
Junior Bill Boone and sophomore Joe Scornavacchi round out the squad, but they will not have a chance to crack the top seven until practice resumes after spring break...
...movie stars Wesley Snipes as a flashy and ruthless crack dealer. Rap artist Ice-T, Judd Nelson and director Mario Van Peebles play police officers out to destroy his drug empire. The drug dealer is eventually brought to justice, but is not punished. Instead, a citizen takes the law into his own hands...
Some of this information is collected by targeting specific types of Iraqi soldiers who are most likely to have the kind of knowledge that the allies need. U.S. Rangers and members of Britain's crack Special Air Service have made forays deep into Iraqi territory with "shopping lists" -- engineers or artillery officers, for example, who have special information about enemy plans and operations...