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...using weapons launched either at sea or in space. While the latter option is backed by those most fervently carrying the Star Wars torch, in a more limited version it also has the support of a number of Senate Democrats, Europeans and even the Russians - a sea-launched "boost phase" system designed to intercept missiles before they leave the atmosphere, rather than the current ground-based system designed to intercept an incoming warhead in space. (Moscow like it because it could effectively neutralize "rogue" state missiles, but not ICBMs fired from deep inside the Russian heartland.) But opting for such...
...blackouts were the latest and most painful phase of a statewide energy crisis that has been years in the making and continues to worsen, triggered by a spectacularly twisted and shortsighted deregulation plan. It has enraged consumers and businessmen even as it has pushed California's two largest utilities toward bankruptcy. It threatens to undermine the state's $1.3 trillion economy, the sixth largest on Earth, and rock the U.S. overall as it struggles to avoid a recession...
Parents can protest for only so long. Tracey Hart, 14, admits her toes "get a little cold" as she walks through her Philadelphia neighborhood. Her mother Sandra just shrugs and expresses a hope that "the phase passes quickly and she doesn't get sick...
...actress, Lopez has an assertive allure, and she brings that quality to her videos and to her new CD, J.Lo. Yeah, sure, Love Don't Cost a Thing's theme is borrowed from Madonna (circa her Material Girl phase), and, yes, Lopez is dating Sean ("Puff Daddy") Combs, a rap mogul who can afford to repurchase all the clothes she strips off (or replace them with items from his clothing line). But on J.Lo, even more than on her 1999 debut, On the Six, she throws herself into her role as a singer. Her recipe on such numbers...
Rupert's organization has plans for eight more such parks. By year end he will launch the first phase of a giant park straddling South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The GKG (Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou) Peace Park will eventually have an area of nearly 38,600 sq. mi., the size of Portugal. More than 350 Mozambicans are being trained in game management and ranger work to provide for an expected increase in tourism to the new area. "I'm a realist who believes in miracles," says Rupert. "The secret is not to do things for people but to do things with...