Word: payloads
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...scene could have been the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Computer control panels were labeled with such typical NASA acronyms as PAP (payload activity planner) and CIC (communication interface coordinator). On an enormous video screen, a curved line snaked across a map of the world, tracking the voyage of Flight 61-A through space. But wait a minute. Emblazoned on another screen against a black, red and gold background was a message that seemed strangely out of place: ERSTE DEUTSCHE SPACELAB MISSION. Translation: first German Spacelab mission...
...John Bolton had told Congress that Iran's Shahab-3, which has a range of about 800 miles, is "a direct threat to Israel, Turkey [and] U.S. forces in the region." If its research and development program goes unchecked, Bolton warned, Iran could soon have missiles capable of delivering payloads to Western Europe and the U.S. And if that isn't scary enough, CIA director Porter Goss said in congressional testimony last week that North Korea's new, untested Taepo Dong-2 missile "is capable of reaching the United States with a nuclear-weapon-sized payload...
...rogue states. Underscoring the danger last week in testimony to the U.S. Congress, CIA Director Porter Goss declared that North Korean missiles have been improved to the point that one long-range version, the Taepo Dong-2, "is capable of reaching the U.S. with a nuclear weapon-sized payload...
...billed 10th). She's the daughter of an antique dealer who is threatened, and killed, by a smuggling ring he is trying to expose. In an early scene, smugglers are shown flying aliens into the country; when the Feds close in on them, they jettison their human payload. (An identical scene appears two years later in Secret Service of the Air, the first in Ronald Reagan's Brass Bancroft series.) Wong turns globe-trotting sleuth to learn the identity of the smugglers' Mr. Big (who turns out to be a Mrs.) and is nearly gang-raped on slave ship...
...actors also do their part delivering the full emotional payload, especially Portman. As much as she manages to make you love her character—and it is hard not to after her adorable Buster Keaton references—she also convinces you that Alice may not necessarily be someone you want to have around. The actors are also all indebted to Marber for his witty and overall intelligent script, which makes a terrific transition from the stage to the screen...