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...Even though the rocket failed 40,000 ft. in the air, corkscrewing back to earth for a crash landing moments after liftoff, the event marked a milestone in the rapidly approaching future of personal space travel...
...Clearly there are ways to get into space that don't require NASA astronauts and NASA hardware," says Banke. "Now it's time to turn over low-earth orbit to the commercial guys...
...respect for human and civil rights. Like most Americans, I remember 9/11 with sadness, a sadness that deepens when I think of what our country could have been five years after the day when we were all one. Dorian de Wind Austin, Texas, U.S. "The nation that fell to earth" was helpfully provocative. Ferguson reminded us that geopolitical landscapes evolve through the interaction of many seemingly unrelated factors. Although it is impossible to predict the ultimate influence of 9/11 on the balance of international power, the article reminded us that, if the U.S. is to remain politically and economically strong...
...insurance providers face from climate change and the places they invest to provide the income to meet those risks. Put more bluntly: most big insurers are heavily invested in those businesses that are believed to be the biggest contributors to global warming. A 2000 report by Friends of the Earth on the investment portfolios of the U.K.'s top insurance companies found they invested extensively in global oil and mining companies such as ExxonMobil, Elf Aquitaine and Rio Tinto. "There's a real disconnect between the investment side and the acknowledgment of climate change," says Matthew Arnold, who tracks...
...entire defense team boycotted the removal of the previous judge last week, but Saddam stayed mum. That is until the judge admonished his former military intelligence chief for using one of the old military titles of lieutenant general to describe Sultan Hashim, the commander who led the 1988 scorched-earth campaign that killed 182,000 Kurds...