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...thousandth of an inch, and can be programmed in three dimensions. According to Farkas, it helps “when you’re trying to measure the speed of light to 18 decimal places.” Farkas is making a small assembly for a rotating laser mount out of Invar, a metal that resists the expansion and contraction associated with laser research. He invites FM to take the digital mill for a spin. “Just lower the bit five thousandths of an inch and press the button,” he instructs. The hot lubricant launches...
Some students began to mount vocal opposition to the financial aid policy for independent students last year when a prominent member of the gay community took a two-year leave from Harvard pending independent status...
...Special Republican Guard and the Special Security Organization. Those groups are badly outmuscled by the 325 Abrams tanks, 200 Bradley fighting vehicles and 100 attack helicopters soon to bear down on them. The survivors among the defenders, however, along with the Fedayeen, would probably mount persistent ambushes on coalition troops. At a Pentagon press briefing last week, Rumsfeld said that "this terrorist-type threat ... will very likely continue" throughout the war. Noted an Air Force officer: "It's going to lead to some of our guys getting killed, but it also means they're going to start running...
This time around, Harvard trailed by just one with under a minute remaining, but the squad was unable to mount a charge great enough to bring the score level and ultimately fell...
...Shock and awe" had been designed to decapitate the regime and remove its will, and ability to mount a coherent defense. That, coalition commanders had hoped, would spur mass-scale surrender and even the internal collapse of the regime with minimal loss of life. Saddam has planned all along on forcing the coalition to fight a bloody battle for Baghdad, believing that the spectacle of mass civilian deaths and significant military casualties on the coalition side would raise political pressure on President Bush to accept something short of complete victory. As implausible as that scenario...