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...their targets, they penetrate and explode, leaving the battlefield with a thin coating of uranium dust. When soldiers and civilians search recently destroyed enemy tanks for intelligence or souvenirs, they disturb this thin coating and inhale the radioactive dust. Over 300 tons of DU were strewn over the desert battlefields during the Gulf...
...million grant. "Just building a lightweight, university-driven probe, and showing that much less demanding technology is needed, is in itself a triumph," says respected biomedical engineer Heinz Wolff. How will the probe know if there is life on Mars? The planet's surface is a dry and frozen desert, seemingly hostile to any life-forms. But astronomers say it was once covered in rivers, lakes and possibly oceans; NASA 's Mars Odyssey satellite, currently in orbit around the planet, has detected huge quantities of ice just a few feet below the surface. Beagle will search for evidence that these...
Those assurances are largely politically motivated because, in reality, there's a limited chance that commandos would come across Scud teams in the vastness of the Iraqi desert. Another resource for spotting Scud teams before they have shot a missile is the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (J-STARS) airplane, which was used experimentally in 1991. J-STARS scours the ground like an AWACS scours the skies, keeping track of things that move...
Though the film relies too much on shots of the same few antique paintings and murals, it is often gorgeous to look at. (So it should be: no filmmaker worth his lenses ever shot an ugly scene in the Arabian Desert.) Muhammad cleverly cuts away from incidents in the Prophet's life to scenes in which some modern Muslims--including a New York City fire marshal and a nurse caring for the terminally ill in Dearborn, Mich.--explain how the example of Muhammad's life and work sustains them more than 1,300 years after his death. These stories...
...Indian casinos popped up like new housing developments across Southern California, Martin moved a trailer onto the long-abandoned Augustine reservation in Coachella, a 500-acre desert tract then littered with garbage, discarded household appliances and junk cars, about 25 miles southeast of Palm Springs. There she lived with her three children and African-American husband William Ray Vance. In 1994, membership in the tiny tribe dwindled from three adults to one when Martin's two brothers were killed during separate street shootings in Banning, Calif. Police said both men were involved in drug deals and were members...