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...other, and a handful detected in previous years, the CfA is positioning itself at the forefront of the search for planets outside our solar system. According to Stephen S. Murray, CfA’s deputy director for science, the center is also involved in NASA’s Kepler Mission, which will send a telescope to search for habitable planets. TrES-2 is in the same region that Kepler will peruse. O’Donovan wrote that a series of disappointments before the final confirmation of TrES-2’s existence at the Keck telescope in Hawaii almost...
Following a performance a week ago in which the No. 10 Harvard women’s sailing team took first place at the Captain Hurst Bowl in Hanover, N.H., the Crimson was out to prove this weekend that last week’s result was no fluke. Mission accomplished. In the second week of the young women’s sailing season, Harvard again traveled to a Dartmouth-hosted event and again earned first place honors. This time it was the Mrs. Hurst Bowl, the first women’s intersectional of 2006. Sophomores Roberta Steele and Christina Cordeiro earned...
...powerful rhetoric. Fortunately, we have Ghosh to describe the situation in Baghdad. Otherwise we would have to rely on the ever-optimistic, honeyed official government reports, which would have us believe Iraq will soon be free of anarchy, death and destruction?a claim that has been made since that MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner was displayed behind President Bush in the halcyon days of May 2003. Philip A. Roe Stamford Bridge, England...
...Middle East analyst for RAND, has extensively studied possible Israeli military operations against Iran and none of them leave him particularly sanguine. Israel does have conventional missiles it could launch from land or from ships and diesel-powered submarines, but their capabilities would be limited for this type of mission in terms of range and accuracy. The most likely weapons Israel would use, Jones believes, would be its American-made F-15 and F-16 warplanes that have "long-range strategic strike capabilities...
That kind of retaliation could quickly transform a relatively limited U.S. mission in Iran into a much more complicated one involving regime change. An Iran determined to use all its available weapons to counterattack the U.S. and its allies would present a challenge to American prestige that no Commander in Chief would be likely to tolerate for long. Zinni, for one, believes an attack on Iran could eventually lead to U.S. troops on the ground. "You've got to be careful with your assumptions," he says. "In Iraq, the assumption was that it would be a liberation, not an occupation...