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...nonetheless is a potent weapon: its existence ensures that part of China's nuclear deterrent can survive an enemy's first strike on its land-based missiles. In order of size there followed three medium-range land-launched CSS-2s, three intermediate-range CSS-3s and, largest by far, a CSS-4, a three-stage intercontinental mammoth capable of hitting targets as far as 8,000 miles away, a range that includes the Soviet Union, the U.S. and all of Asia. So big was the CSS-4 that it was trundled by, separated into its stages...
...taken part. They included H-6 bombers, Chinese versions of the Soviet TU-16 Badger; A6s, radically redesigned ground-support planes similar to the MiG-19; and F-7s, a Chinese adaptation of the MiG-21. The foreign observers had not missed much. Although China has the second-largest number of combat aircraft in the world (after the Soviet Union), most are either obsolete or obsolescent. The H-6, for example, China's only bomber of note, is based on a 25-year-old design, has a limited range (less than 3,000 miles) and is not capable...
Moscow now directs the world's largest space project...
...study, by far the largest and most thorough of the 80-odd major surveys to take the psychic pulse of America since 1900, reports that during a given six-month period, one in five adults, or about 29 million people, suffers from mental problems. Only a fifth of those affected had recently sought professional help, mostly from general physicians rather than mental-health specialists...
...Rabbi." (Less reverential Jews on the right wing of Orthodoxy use just his initials "J.B.") As professor of Talmud since 1941 at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York City, Soloveitchik has prepared nearly 1,500 men for ordination. By some estimates, this is the largest number of rabbis trained by any sage of the past millennium. The group makes up the majority of the North American Orthodox rabbis now serving in synagogues. Neither the Conservative nor the Reform branches of U.S. Judaism can boast an equivalently pre-eminent scholar...