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...International Space Station has been a scientific black hole, swallowing nearly $100 billion and delivering little of real value. President Bush's manned moon-Mars initiative will cost at least $170 billion--and that's from an agency that has never met a cost estimate it couldn't overrun. Forget the fixation with getting bodies in orbit or boots in the soil, critics say, and you could fairly blanket other planets with Cassini-quality landers and orbiters and still have billions left over. NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, not surprisingly, disagrees: "Robotic missions are precursor missions." The most thorough exploration...
...believe, but an auction that turns nyalas into trophies is actually a sign of how game conservation is working in South Africa. Although poaching remains a huge problem in places like Angola and Zimbabwe, in South Africa, conservation efforts have been so successful that game parks have sometimes been overrun by animals. In 1989, to manage the problem without culling, the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi park launched this auction - South Africa's biggest - which attracts game-preserve owners, hunters and conservationists, who come to buy animals as big as giraffes or as small as the groundhog-like rock hyraxes known as dassies...
...From the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force's headquarters in Ramadi, Major Thomas V. "TV" Johnson said by late afternoon that Ramadi and Fallujah were "fairly quiet," dismissing reports from Arabic news channels that insurgents had overrun the cities as "wholly inaccurate...
...overrun with exhaustion and excitement,” Johnston said. “That was definitely one of the high points of my season. Every freshman athlete dreams of scoring the overtime winner in a big game and doing just that was a totally irreplaceable experience...
...original plans for attacking Nazi Germany envisioned a major cross-Channel invasion in mid-1943, with the possibility of a smaller-scale landing at an earlier date if the Soviets were on the point of collapse. That seemed perilously likely. By mid-1942, more than 150 German divisions had overrun the Soviet Union to a depth of 1,000 miles, wreaking mayhem on a scale that John F. Kennedy later compared to "the devastation of this country east of Chicago." The fate of Britain and the U.S. alike hung on the Soviets' survival. "The prize we seek," said Dwight Eisenhower...