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...first proposed it, it does not work now, and there is nothing to suggest that it will work in the future. Not only have past missile defense schemes—from Patriot Missiles to the Bush administration’s missile interceptor plans—failed, but every available option is inherently easy to fool. As Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg argues, it is impossible to tell whether a missile is loaded or a decoy based on its trajectory above the Earth’s atmosphere. Hence it will always be possible to bypass a ballistic missile defense system, even...
...pulling off such a rescue operation. On Tuesday Pelosi, made it clear that the Bush Administration has the authority to act at any time without Congress, saying that "an intervention will happen either legislatively or from the Administration ... I think it's pretty clear that bankruptcy is not an option." Until now, President Bush has been unwilling to consider such an approach. But on Tuesday, the same day the automakers reported their worst month of sales in 26 years, the White House did not rule anything...
...junior guard Corey Lowe, who scored a game-high 23 points in the meeting last year. He is averaging 17.2 points per game and is the biggest weapon in a talented BU backcourt.“He’s a really, really good scorer and a dangerous, dangerous option that they have,” Amaker said. “There’s nothing he can’t do on the offensive end, he shoots it from 23, 24, 25 feet with ease. He can put it on the floor and get to the basket...
...exams on the Sunday before the inauguration. It will be circulated to different administrators. “Through our efforts, we hope to convince the administration and professors to offer students wishing to either travel to Washington, D.C. for the event or watch this historic presidential inauguration live the option for a make-up examination,” Shah said last week in an e-mailed statement. “We do not want to reschedule exams for entire classes.” Professors do not have the authority to reschedule their exams to different days. That right is reserved...
...scene for so many years," says Sheetal Javeri, an administration professional, emerging from CST, the railway terminal struck by terrorists on Wednesday night. "But the government has taken no steps. If five-star hotels can be targeted so easily, where is the common man to go?" She has little option but to use the commuter rail line despite the attacks. "But that doesn't mean I don't fear for my safety or my family's safety," she says. "They still don't know how many terrorists there were and how many may still be at large." Trisha Sethi...