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Next weekend the Crimson will compete in the Navy Fall Intersectional at the Naval Academy. This will enable the sailors to experience cross-district competition. The team will race four boats in a four-division regatta—two one-person and two two-person boats...
...dock with the module to form a cheap space lab. Most experts say China deserves the credit for its program. "If someone sells you instructions to make a car and you build it, it's yours," says Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on China's space program at the Naval War College in Rhode Island...
...Kursk recovery is any guide, salvage operations won't be possible before May. The Russian Naval Command hasn't committed to a date but promises it will retrieve K-159 by next year--without foreign assistance. TIME's source is skeptical. The navy is short on funds. Three years after the Kursk disaster, it still hasn't bought the gear necessary for such an operation. The government, meanwhile, has allocated only $70 million for all nuclear clean-up and maintenance in Russia. It cost $150 million to recover the Kursk. --By Yuri Zarakhovich
...pressure, 238 m down, and its hull is deeply corroded. Although its reactors ground to a halt 15 years ago, the spent nuclear fuel - 798 kg of the stuff - was never unloaded. If the Kursk recovery is any guide, salvage operations won't be possible before May. The Russian Naval Command promises it will retrieve K-159 by next year - without foreign assistance. TIME's source is skeptical: the navy is short on funds. Three years after the Kursk disaster, it still hasn't bought the gear necessary for such an operation. The government, meanwhile, has allocated only $70 million...
...without a U.N. mandate. And in Spain, Prime Minister José María Aznar accused opposition leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of "laying his hopes on the coffins of Spanish soldiers" to prove that Spain's involvement is unwise. But despite the death of Spanish naval captain Manuel Martín-Oar, 56, in last month's bombing of the U.N.'s Baghdad headquarters, the Spanish public remains quiet - and Aznar, like other leaders, hasn't budged. If anything, politicians in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic say, the suicide attack strengthened their resolve. The first...