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...RUSSIA STRUGGLES TO HOLD TOGETHER, ITS SPACE PROGRAM is falling apart. At the BAIKONUR COSMODROME in Kazakhstan -- the Russian equivalent of the Kennedy Space Center -- civilian workers have been looting equipment, crippling the facility's launch pad in the process. The Russian space program is also involved in a feud with the new Ukrainian state, which has its own space program. A Russian meteorological satellite was turned off in orbit, so Ukraine couldn't recover weather data from it. Some of the stolen Baikonur equipment has mysteriously resurfaced in Ukraine. Understandably, the disarray of Russia's once great space program...
WOULD YOU PAY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR SOMETHING YOU don't need, don't want and won't use? If you're an American taxpayer, you may have no choice. Israel has staged a successful rocket launch with its ARROW anti-tactical missile system, a feat that will help bolster arguments that U.S. funding of the Israeli / project should continue. To strengthen Israel's security, the U.S. has spent $126 million on the Arrow and plans to pick up two-thirds of the projected $322 million in future development costs. The U.S. has no plans to purchase the system...
Those were heady hours. Luce and Hadden, recently out of Yale, had struggled for about a year scrounging up financial backing to launch a radically new idea in journalism: a weekly newsmagazine that aimed to summarize world events and organize them in pithy style. Now editors Luce and Hadden were putting to press the first issue of TIME, with House Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon on the cover. "It wasn't bad at all," Luce wrote later. "In fact, it was quite good. Somehow it all held together -- it made sense, it was interesting...
Nearly 20 years later, Reeves saw a chance to launch by proclamation the African American Heritage Project to highlight African American achievements by drawing on the talents of many scholars...
Long past midnight, top government officials worked feverishly inside the FBI's Washington headquarters to launch an assault by the elite Hostage Rescue Team. At stake were the lives of nine employees at the Talladega federal prison, in Alabama, who were being held captive by a mob of prisoners armed with spears, knives and crossbows. Suddenly FBI Director William Sessions walked in and began marching around the room, "making noise, strutting around, being somewhat pompous, and engaging in non sequiturs," as one official recalls. Instead of dealing with the crisis at hand, the officials were forced to humor Sessions...