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...guide itself into a suicidal collision with the warhead. It will be receiving guidance from far below as early-warning radar systems detect the incoming warhead. These systems hand off data to a so-called X-band radar system based on Kwajalein, which stabs the sky with a narrow beam of electronic pulses. The X-band's shorter wavelengths and advanced signal-processing capabilities give it the power to "draw" a clear image of the incoming warheads and surrounding decoys from up to 1,000 miles away. (Ultimately, the system's $500 million X-band radar will be based...
...through the lock and then reassembled on the other side. "You want to keep moving all the time," explains Captain Dennis Drury over the thrum of his boat's diesel engine as he slowly pushes more than two acres of barges carrying 20,000 tons of corn into a narrow lock at Winfield, Mo. "But you can sit here for a day and a half waiting on your turn to lock." So the corps wants to build seven new 1,200-ft. chambers--double the length of the current locks--at a cost of $1.2 billion. And with...
...Barak's peacemaking style, the gulf between the Israeli leader's final offer and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's bottom line may have been too wide to be bridged by a U.S. administration that will be out of office six months from now. Barak's coalition crisis will only narrow his scope for concessions...
...during children's hours, but later in the day, when he triple-bogeyed, he just chuckled. He then erased that mistake with three birdies. And he did it all on a course well known by every golf fan--one that sets a standard for championship play. The fairways were narrow. The rough was deep. The wind blew. The greens were hard and fast. We know what the world's best golfers have shot at Pebble over the decades, and Tiger shot a score nobody is supposed to shoot...
...very different vision that faced me on the day of the race. The Thames I encountered was narrow, gray, and dotted with dark patches of choppy waves. Dingy black barges made their way up and down the race course, drawing little water. Our centerboard caught in the muddy banks before we were even off the mooring and our little craft was buffeted by the gusting winds. My confidence was as shaken--the only thing keeping me from running away was the trusting smile of my MP. He didn't seem to notice that I was the youngest skipper, the only...