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...Iraq. Witkowski later met with St. Clair's partner, Paul Sjeklocha, a California-based science writer. Sjeklocha allegedly told the agent he had netted up to $8 million in arms deals over the past two years and presented Witkowski with a "shopping list" of weapons that included Sidewinder, Sparrow, Harpoon, Phoenix and French-made Exocet missiles. In June, Witkowski signed a contract to provide 1,140 TOW surface-to-surface missiles, supposedly by stealing them. At $8,000 a piece, the missiles would cost $9.1 million...
FISHING A Harpoon for Japan's Whalers...
Whatever the reason, the extended keg ban just doesn’t make sense. Banning kegs once more will only increase the consumption of hard alcohol at and before the Game. Harpoon may have a scary brand name, but Smirnoff is the real way to kill someone. Furthermore, keg ban or not, and United Liquors men or not, the College is never going to rid itself of responsibility if a student drinks too much and dies. There are too many people serving too much alcohol. The College would be better off reinstating kegs, restricting dangerous hard alcohol and focusing...
...policies towards underage student drinking at the Game (and across campus) will help to prevent alcohol poisoning may have had a few too many themselves. The keg ban in 2002 only made many tailgates switch to serving hard alcohol—a far more dangerous brew than anything Harpoon can cook up. Renewing the keg ban will renew this danger...
...will be mapping and characterizing the comet, using an array of scientific instruments to analyze the dust and gas spewing from the snowball's 4-km-wide nucleus. The orbiter will also release its lander, Philae, which will anchor itself to the comet in November 2014 using a harpoon and "ice screws" - drills extending from each of its three legs that rotate into the nucleus. The lander's job is to provide data on the chemical and physical properties of a selected area of the comet's surface. Rosetta is then to "escort" the comet around the sun - which...