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...Scott Exo, PORTLAND...
...While the Pentagon said it had received no prior notice of China's missile test, it added that U.S. space-based sensors "detected two geographically separated missile-launch events" leading to an "exo-atmospheric collision." The event marked the latest outer-space tit for tat between the two nations: in 2007, China blasted one of its own weather satellites to smithereens, generating concern it was perfecting a satellite-killing weapon similar to the one last tested by the U.S. in 1985. In 2008, the U.S. destroyed a disabled spy satellite with a missile fired from a Navy ship, ostensibly...
...machines with trans-fat-laden cookies. Some health-minded activists have launched a movement to serve patients fresh, seasonal food, and hospitals are beginning to change their menus accordingly. "They're starting to see food not simply as a cost but as a prevention-and-treatment issue," says Scott Exo, head of the Oregon-based Food Alliance...
Moshier's Solotrek XFV (short for Exo-Skeletor Flying Vehicle) has a comparable flight record: 8 in. above the ground for about 9 sec., according to the inventor. A former Navy combat pilot, Moshier has been working on his creation, at least in his mind, since he was a teenager in the 1960s, although officially his company, Millennium Jets, has been at it only six years. The look of his machine is pure sci-fi: an 8-ft. metal frame supports two gas-engine-powered fans, each 38 in. in diameter, that jut like oversize ears above the frame...
That is why, inside a secret factory in Tucson, Ariz., U.S. scientists are crafting 55-in.-long, 120-lb. missile killers. These "exo-atmospheric kill vehicles" are designed to smash invading weapons 140 miles above the earth's surface, long before they can reach a U.S. city and kill thousands, if not millions. At the Pentagon, military officers are drafting plans for sky-scouring radars designed to stand perpetual guard against just such an attack. At the western tip of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, military surveyors assess sites at which construction of the most critical of those radars...