Word: interceptive
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...Guiana, soaring up and away over the tiny South American country's lush equatorial forests and sandy Atlantic beaches. Flight 158 is no ordinary tourist shuttle, though. It's an Ariane-5G rocket that will launch the Rosetta spacecraft on an ambitious journey halfway across the solar system to intercept and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is currently streaking across space at more than 100,000 km/h inside the orbit of Jupiter. "What's totally obsessing me is that we're launching into a comet and searching for the origins of life," says David Southwood, director of science...
...process. Fields allowed the puck to squirt loose in front of the goal, presenting a rare golden scoring opportunity for the goal-starved Eagles. Ryan Murphy attempted to flick the puck back to a teammate, but BU’s David van der Gulik was there to intercept and prepared to clear the puck from the zone and end the threat with just 29 seconds left on the power play...
Ruggiero emerged from the penalty box just in time to intercept a pass and shoot a slapshot off Wildcats goalie Melissa Bourdon. McAuliffe skated in from the other side, collected a bounce off freshman winger Jennifer Sifers, and flipped it into...
Carter has emerged as a prominent critic of the 11-nation Proliferation Security Initiative, a U.S.-led effort to intercept North Korean weapons shipments...
...numbers don’t show his commanding presence. Tailbacks avoid running up the middle if he’s camped out in the box. On passing downs, he blitzes effectively and can drop back into coverage and intercept a pass—he has six picks in his career...