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...minutes into the flight. And early indications are that the more than 700 onboard sensors did their job by streaming back to Earth a treasure trove of data to validate Ares computer models, information to be used in tweaking the final design. Ares I-X got off the ground just 30 minutes before the launch window closed for the second day in a row. (See pictures of celestial bodies...
...That ground was covered by earlier Administrations, from which sprang the inherently dangerous design of the space shuttle in the 1970s. Budget cuts and compromises led to the critical mistake of designing the shuttle to fly horizontally but launch vertically, leaving the ship helpless and without any abort option right after launch if something went wrong...
...operations. "We wanted to leave the court, and then he attacked her," Okaz said in a calm voice, recalling the incident. "When I saw that he had a knife, I tried to get it off him. He continued stabbing my wife even when she was lying on the ground." Okaz said their son was meant to be in kindergarten on the day of the attack but was ill. "Marwa wanted to take him to the doctor after the hearing. The little boy misses her, and he's suffering a lot," Okaz testified. (See TIME's pictures of the Muslim world...
...Tajik Northern Alliance was a paid-up proxy of Iran, just as it was fully aware that another ally, Uzbek General Dostum, was one of Afghanistan's great butchers (though Dostum has always denied the widespread allegations of his brutality). When it came to finding crucial partners on the ground, there were simply no alternatives...
...increases its troop levels in Afghanistan (numbers there have doubled to about 10,000 in the past three years), it has ramped up its training exercises in Kenya, with more than 3,000 soldiers passing through the region each year. The army says Laikipia is perhaps its best training ground because the conditions there - high altitude, extreme heat, hilly terrain - are remarkably similar to those found in Afghanistan...