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...have recruited tens of millions of Afghan and Iraqi Muslims" to our cause. Why, then, is there a vocal movement even among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ites to remove U.S. forces so Iraq can get on with forming an Islamic republic? Why, then, is there sufficient support to fuel an insurgency that shows no signs of waning? Why, then, are nearly all of Afghanistan 's provinces outside Kabul effectively ruled by tribal leaders and warlords? Philip K. Lentz Amman, Jordan Sharing Journalists' Notes I strongly disagree with the decision made by Norman Pearlstine, Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief...
...thick; it probably weighed 0.9 lbs. (0.4 kg), about half the size of the piece that downed Columbia ?THE TROUBLESOME RAMP Most of the falling bits came from the so-called PAL ramp, a ridge of hand-sprayed foam designed to protect fuel lines from buffeting on takeoff ?EXTERNAL FUEL TANK The tank, 154 ft. (47 m) tall and 27.6 ft. (8.4 m) wide, carries 535,000 gal. (2 million liters) of frigid liquid oxygen and hydrogen fuel. It is covered by polyurethane-like foam that keeps the fuel cool, prevents ice from forming on the exterior...
...FOAM -- 1 in. (2.5 cm) ?Fuel ?Aluminum casing ?Epoxy...
Congress last week passed energy legislation costing $14.5 billion in tax credits and spending. Republicans hailed the bill for its free-market principles and support of less polluting energy sources. Democrats called it corporate welfare for the unclean and well-off fossil-fuel industries...
Even Bush acknowledged that it will have little or no impact here. The bill calls for nearly doubling production of the fuel additive ethanol by 2012 but does little else to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign...