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Liberals find the concept of a “boost-phase” defense rather appealing. Richard Lowry of the National Review indicates that such a system “would knock down a missile before it really got started...
Captain Pat Brown, 48, always said the New York City fire department had saved his life. He came home to Queens from Vietnam in 1973 covered with medals but angry and choked up on adrenaline, daring anyone to knock the chip off his shoulder. Not good qualities for most jobs--unless you need to suit up every day against an adversary like fire. He made some spectacular rescues, including a courageous save as a lieutenant in 1991 on the roof of a midtown office building: Brown and two of his men held an inch-thick rope in their bare hands...
...eerie foreshadowing of the World Trade Center attack, the writer John McPhee explored with nuclear physicist Ted Taylor the question of how you could topple the Twin Towers with a small atomic bomb. Positioned correctly, McPhee reported, a nuke a tenth as powerful as Hiroshima's could knock a tower into the Hudson River...
Each spring, she would consider getting rid of the tree as she braced herself for two weeks of watery eyes and constant sneezing—but her next-door-neighbor John C. Jenkins would implore her to keep the delicate, fragrant tree standing. It was simply too beautiful to knock down...
...surprising, then, that the requirements of coalition building spurred the Bush administration over the last week to knock Israeli and Palestinian heads together. Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat were told in no uncertain terms that the game had changed, and that both sides would face the wrath of the international community unless they do more to forge a cease-fire. Nobody's expecting miracles, but changing the tone of Israeli-Palestinian relations is considered critical to maintaining the all-important Arab support for the anti-terror coalition. Still, it'll take a lot more than an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire...