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...perversion of post-Cold War thinking, the $1 trillion push to build and fly the F-35 isn't driven by huge fleets of hot new warplanes being built by - well, new perpetual bogeyman China or former perpetual bogeyman Russia. Rather, the haste is being driven by Pentagon concerns over looming shortages of F-16 and F-18 jet fighters. And what's causing those shortages? Gates made it clear that the current planes must be retired in order to save money so the military can pay for the F-35. "The Air Force, in order to be able...
...miles inland from the famous links of St. Andrews, Scotland, the Peat Inn offers the perfect refuge for golfing pilgrims battered by wind, rain and a relentless assault of fish 'n' chips and other greasy Scottish clubhouse fare. This 300-year-old former coaching inn, which sits on the edge of a desolately beautiful field, is run by husband-and-wife duo Geoffrey and Katherine Smeddle and has just been awarded a Michelin star. A recent meal had the rewarding combination of surprise (cannelloni of hare) and comfort (roast rib eye of beef in red-wine sauce...
...space experience will affect the female constitution, we have to be extra cautious, because this is a first for China." Ensuring that the female astronauts have already reproduced, he said, will guarantee that their family planning is not disrupted. But at least one authority, Zhang Jianqi, former deputy commander of the country's manned space program, has stated that the requirement stands because married women are more physically and psychologically mature. (See pictures of women in space...
...That was not, of course, the case for Lisa Nowak, the former NASA astronaut who less than a year after flying aboard the Discovery was arrested in Florida and charged with the attempted kidnapping of the girlfriend of astronaut William Oefelein (Nowak was eventually sentenced to a year's probation after pleading guilty to lesser charges of felony burglary and misdemeanor battery). Experts have since said that Nowak, who was married at the time and has three children, may have been driven to those extremes by the pressures of juggling her demanding space career and motherhood. "It's definitely...
...illegal." Israel's claims on the parts of the city it captured in 1967 are not internationally recognized, and Netanyahu's claim that Jerusalem is Israel's capital is called into question by the fact that no country has its embassy in the city. Even Netanyahu's immediate predecessor, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said on the eve of his departure from office in late 2008 that in order to achieve peace, Israel would have to "withdraw from almost all of the territories [occupied in 1967], including in East Jerusalem." (See pictures of Israel...