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...critical error by not--as the military saying goes--hoping for the best while planning for the worst. Civilians in the Defense Department seemed to have believed that Iraqis would be so grateful to the U.S. that the number of troops needed after the war could be relatively modest...
...huge tidal flows are not essential to the system. "We will tailor the units to be site specific," he explains, "So that in areas with lower tidal flow we'd use larger blades and more of them than we'd need in areas with greater flow." Even with a modest tidal flow, the technology could still be used to desalinate sea water and pump it ashore - a self-propelled water purifier. Babtie has already sent a team of engineers to the Middle East to discuss the possibilities of setting up tide-driven desalination plants. Ayre is expecting that once...
...Modest people don’t usually have a killer instinct. Such is not the case for the Harvard women’s hockey team’s humble freshman, Julie Chu, who also happens to be one of the Crimson’s deadliest offensive weapons, a potent goal-scorer with blazing speed and an incredible knack for finishing...
Meister said that it seems like Lander’s initial proposal, which he said was for $750 million, had been “whittled down to something more modest...and better motivated...