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...Allan Paull, leader of the Australian HyShot project, which will test its own and a British model on July 2 and 9, the logic of hypersonics is undeniable. "If you had the money and the will, you're probably talking about five to 10 years before you have hypersonic aircraft," he says. "Once you have demonstrated something, if someone wants to run with it, it's just a matter of money...
...those trendy brands. So the number of robberies has almost doubled over the past 10 years. "For decades the rmi and other welfare payments bought social peace by replacing viable economic policies," says Vergès. "But we've come to the end of that logic. Consumer goods are being presented ostentatiously to a growing population that can't afford them. In the future, that could have very serious consequences...
...this zero-casualty logic that forced us from the bleeding streets of Mogadishu, that compelled us to wage a virtual war from the sky over Milosevic’s Serbia without even admitting the possibility of sending in ground forces, and that has now created the bizarre situation with our Chinese “friends,” in which the most powerful nation on earth has made an apology to a government whose reckless pilot forced our aircraft from the skies and then held our crew as, well, hostages...
...such great expectations? Robert M. Snyder, who wrote Chess for Juniors and runs a program by the same name in Fort Collins, Colo., thinks it can. "Today the world is so technology oriented that you need brainpower, not brawn, to compete," he says. Not only can chess improve logic, concentration and focus, but it also helps kids realize the consequences of their actions. "If you don't pay attention in school, you might not see the consequences right away," says Tom Brownscombe, scholastic director of the U.S. Chess Federation. "If you lose your queen in chess, it forces...
...over the weekend that he believes Israeli withdrawal from the Golan is unacceptable under any circumstances, and that he won't consider it. In other words, from the Syrian point of view, Sharon is signaling that Damascus has nothing to discuss with the current Israeli government - and by that logic, little incentive to rein in Hezbollah. Sharon may be trying to create such an incentive with air strikes, but in the short term that's more likely to escalate the confrontation along Israel's northern border...