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...more than noise based on ignorance." Said he: "They're the same kind of talk that led the democracies to neglect their defenses in the 1930s and invited the tragedy of World War II." In order to emphasize the offensive threat posed by the Soviet Union, Reagan declassified spy-plane photographs showing Soviet activity in the Caribbean area. His charts showed the five new classes of Soviet ICBMS that have been produced since the U.S. Minuteman was deployed. He compared Moscow's missiles aimed at Europe with the lack of any NATO missiles aimed at the Soviets. And he pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Reagan for the Defense | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...AEROSPACE 4 hours Time it will take to fly from London to Sydney on a space plane being developed by Europe's EADS Astrium $308,200 Estimated cost per ticket aboard the proposed four-passenger craft. The 10,600-mile (17,000 km) journey currently takes more than 21 hours and costs about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...spacecraft's radar. And this summer Cassini will make an unusually high orbit above Saturn's massive B ring, promising unique images of the ring, spread like an immense halo around the planet. The ship will also have the rare opportunity to observe the sun cross the plane of the ring from south to north, literally shedding light on the B ring's complex particle structure. "We want to know what a particle would look like if you could pick one up and hold it in your hand," Spilker says, "and we can do that by studying how they heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Flock | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...Estimated number of hours it will take to fly from London to Sydney on a beyond-the-atmosphere space plane being developed by Europe's EADS Astrium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...They had to pretend they didn’t know each other," Jafar said. "The entire plane ride, they didn’t even speak to each other or have eye contact until they had left Iraq and landed in another country...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Watercolor Memories' | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

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