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...fall of 1944, facing defeat and short of resources, the imperial army began to send off pilots in planes with enough fuel only for a one-way trip. Chiran's location in a hidden valley close to Okinawa made it an ideal launchpad for the so-called Tokkotai, or Special Attack Corps. Tome ran the Tomiya eatery in Chiran. The pilots, many still teenagers, spent their last days hanging around her place. She cooked their favorite meals, smuggled their farewell letters to sweethearts past military censors, and gave the airmen their final hugs goodbye. Tome, then a middle-aged mother...
Accurately or not, especially since dreams of quick dotcom millions collapsed, recruiting has become perceived as the launchpad to a successful career. In the second part of FM’s look at recruiting, see how two seniors try to follow the money...
...ever flew aboard the Mir space station, you'd know how important it was to urinate on the barbed wire surrounding the launchpad before you went up. If you were especially thorough, you might want to douse the wheels of the bus that carried...
...heavily guarded launchpad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, 125 miles up the Pacific Coast from Los Angeles, a 63-ft.-tall gleaming white rocket sits and waits. Secreted in the nose of the 37-year-old Minuteman II is a 5-ft.-long cone--a mock warhead--and a deflated Mylar balloon. Let's say they are part of an incoming missile from North Korea or Iran. Meanwhile...
...hardly spoken in public since his immortal line on July 20, 1968, but who joined fellow Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin A. "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins Tuesday to receive the Langley Gold Medal for aviation from Al Gore. And as the space shuttle Columbia sits idle on the launchpad, its mission scrubbed until Friday because of persistent glitches, TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger is reminded how far mighty NASA has fallen since JFK fired our imaginations with his promise. "Three decades later, one of the great disappointments of the moon landing was that there was no real institutional follow...