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...minute. No EP-3E has ever been shot down or captured, even though the "flying pig," as it is called, is a long-range, slow-flying unarmed aircraft. "The most important thing to the Chinese on that airplane was the data we had collected earlier that day," says Norman Polmar, an independent Navy expert. "That would tell them which of their systems is vulnerable to interception?Are we able to intercept telephone conversations from Chinese naval headquarters to ships? Are we able to intercept radar transmissions at certain frequencies??that's what the Chinese want to know...
Last year at the NCAA Regionals in Norman, Okla., the Crimson nearly pulled out a tournament win against Northwestern, holding leads of 4-0 and 6-4, before a string of questionable officiating and defensive breakdowns caused the game to slip away. The recent Worth Invitational games were encouraging for the Crimson's future tournament hopes...
...maintaining his doomed bid to wrest the lottery franchise away from its current operator Camelot. All this for a business-not associated with any Virgin company-that was designed to give its profits to charity. Sir Richard says money can come from the Treasury, which taxes the lottery. But Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrats' spokesman on the lottery, warns that it would likely come out of the lottery's own "good causes" fund...
...unlike the rest of Boston, whose Norman Rockwell qualities have gradually given way to human landscapes, my mental images of Widener have become daguerrotypes, gauzy and greyscale. A shot of the pillars at night, spilling down and across a frozen Yard. A slow panning of the benefactor's full name carved into stone. The inviting wasteland of snowy steps. A clump of visitors posed longingly or curiously on the very top step, taking photographs of each other...
...least four generations are represented (along with voices from much further in the past): bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley, veterans such as Norman Blake and John Hartford, neo-trad practitioners like Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, and the Munchkin-voiced Peasall Sisters (average age eight and a half). But the years fade away as the artists converge on an old-timey repertoire of sparsely arranged, vocally oriented songs that hark back to a pre-commercial time when singing was as integral an element of people's lives as work, love and religion, all of which it encompassed. This isn't folk...