Word: interceptible
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...soon as you make a bad play, they can capitalize on it," forward Alissi said. "You're tired and so you make a pass [on offense] that you wouldn't normally make and they intercept...
Proceedings at the interception workshop were tumultuous. But there was general agreement about the basic strategy: detect the threatening object and dispatch a warhead-tipped rocket to intercept it and explode, nudging it into a new orbit that would carry it safely past Earth. For a small asteroid detected years and many orbits before its destined collision, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to it at its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, using conventional explosives," explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during...
...test the robotic spacecraft missions" needed to scout any threatening object. An effective way of reducing later costs, says Eugene Shoemaker of the U.S. Geological Survey, would be to put aside a handful of the missiles now being dismantled by the U.S. and Russia and modify them for the intercept program. "It's not huge bucks," he says...
...they will, but finally the noose seems to be tightening. Last week the U.N. Security Council approved plans to bar all shipments of strategic goods through Serbia and Montenegro, including fuel, steel and chemicals. NATO and the nine-nation Western European Union last week authorized a naval blockade to intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat...
...hadn't seen her running around the court, contorting into improbable positions to hit impossible angles, flinging herself into the air to intercept balls streaking in at 100 m.p.h., exulting at every reassurance that her athleticism was intact -- after 36 years, more than 2,000 career matches and double knee reconstruction -- one might have thought the grande dame of tennis was making a stately segue into the next phase of a stubbornly public life. But four years after she started publicly flirting with the idea, the most successful woman in the history of professional sports is not quite ready...