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...believed that more troops were needed in post-invasion Iraq, he didn't believe it strongly enough to lay down his four stars and resign. His supporters tend to overlook just how meek his public challenge to Rumsfeld was. He never volunteered it. Senator Carl Levin had to extract it from him, slowly and painfully, during a Senate hearing. That's when, in February 2003, Shinseki said he felt that "something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed. Forty-eight hours later, it was the derisive reaction of Wolfowitz, who never served in the military, that...
...boiling cavern's chemistry, and how to keep power plants sustainable by "resting" boreholes to give the source time to replenish its heat. While the ongoing costs of a geothermal power plant are low - Krafla, for example, has only 15 full-time employees - the start-up technology needed to extract heat from a few miles beneath the earth's surface and convert it to electricity is not cheap. By some estimates, conducting the necessary geologic surveys and exploratory drilling for one plant can take up to eight years and $20 million before the turbines start turning. "The high cost...
...trust the U.S. military's screening process. "We know that the Americans have been misled by some of the sheiks," says Hadi al-Ameri, who heads the Iraqi parliament's security committee. In some cases, he says, the sheiks were simply providing false names in order to extract more money from the U.S. military. (Al-Ameri says there are only 57,000 legitimate SOI; the U.S. military says there are nearly twice that number.) In private, other Iraqi officials worry that some tribal leaders have taken money from both the Americans as well as men like Abdallah...
...wonders of eBay allowed the scientists to purchase a $130 bag of 20,000-year-old woolly-mammoth hair from a vendor in Moscow, and the wonders of science allowed them to extract the mammoth's genetic information in the most successful attempt to date to sequence an extinct animal's DNA. DNA in general breaks down after 60,000 years or so, making the possibility of a real Jurassic Park scenario - complete with flying pterodons and bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs - remote. Still, scientists see the completion of the genome as the first step to uncovering and understanding the reasons behind...
...media produces images, it’s amazing how unable we are to catch up with and challenge it. But those images compose our perception of the trauma of those conflicts.” Sculpting in clay with photographs of war in front of him, he tried to extract all the emotion from the images and manifest...