Word: norad
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...consortium of government organizations including NASA, NORAD and even the FCC keeps track of all the planet's high-flying rubbish, and so far, its running count is flat-out scary. There are currently at least 17,000 objects measuring 4 in. or greater circling the Earth - and in some ways, that's the good news. The government estimates that there are 200,000 objects in the 1-in.-to-3-in. range and tens of millions smaller than an inch...
...Listen in as Air Force General Victor Renuart describes what sounds like top-secret war planning. "Our Chemical Response Force will be on alert," he says, describing what some of the 11,500 troops who are assigned inaugural duties will be doing on Jan. 20. "We'll use our NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command] forces to increase the air-defense presence in the area," he adds. Renuart, chief of the post-9/11 U.S. Northern Command, is responsible for defending the U.S. from attack. F-16s and Patriot missile batteries will be ready to deter, and if necessary shoot...
...Life is another story. It grew even faster than YWAM after Haggard founded it in 1984. It too, was vastly creative, helping to define the modern megachurch and experimenting, among other things, with a facility that Haggard hoped would become the NORAD for "prayer war," a Charismatic practice taken up against demons. Despite its size, the church was keyed to the magnetism of one man, Haggard, and after his departure in shame, the church limped along without a pastor until Boyd, a Texas minister, took over...
...While international music fans have yet to take notice, the U.S. security establishment already has. Last October, Dhani spoke at a Defense Department-sponsored conference at NORAD in Colorado Springs, explaining to military and government officials why he rejected the path of his father, a former member of the hard-line body Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia, as well as that of his grandfather, a member of the outlawed Darul Islam, which once fought for an Islamic state in the archipelago. In so doing, the rock star "has chosen to help us annihilate the crisis of misunderstanding of the Muslim world...
...about six months of my senior year, they were kind of playing ‘crime and punishment’ with me, trying to figure out how on Earth I got ahold of all of these addresses, which was just an incredibly top secret document, like the codes that NORAD has to launch nuclear weapons,” Borowitz says. “But they never cracked me. I was sort of like Deep Throat. I just stuck to my guns...