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...among those Iranians who don't support the government. "You go outside in the morning, and the first thing you read is that you may be bombarded," says a woman from an élite family, referring to rumors about U.S. or Israeli plans to bomb Iran's nuclear-development program, which the government insists is for civilian purposes. "What other country lives with this threat on a daily basis? [Our nuclear program has] nothing to do with...
...Soviet Union during the cold war, to prevent disagreements from turning into open conflict. "The only thing we want from the United States is for them not to mess with our country," he says. But that would mean the U.S. accepting Iran's right to have a nonmilitary nuclear program, ending sanctions, apologizing for past misdeeds, shutting down covert operations and accepting Iran's right to support Hamas and Hizballah just as the U.S. supports Israel--a list unlikely to be welcomed by any administration in Washington. "If we accept that the U.S. interferes in the Middle East, then Iran...
...abandoned plans to transport all those vehicles to the battlefield aboard C-130 cargo planes because they are too heavy. Costs are on the rise as well: the Army was able to keep the FCS's total price tag at $160 billion only by killing four of the program's 18 platforms in 2007--and is likely to continue cutting them to keep down the expense...
...second front, Congress, is, if anything, harder. During an appearance on Capitol Hill, lawmakers pushed him to declare their pet programs safe. Senator James Inhofe pressed Gates to protect the FCS program, whose high-tech cannon is built in Oklahoma, Inhofe's home state. "We have a nation where steel mills are shutting down," said Representative Gene Taylor, whose Mississippi district builds ships and who chairs the House Seapower Subcommittee and co-chairs the Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus. "I would ask you to encourage your acquisition folks to take advantage of these low prices." Shutting down the F-22 line means...
...corporate program was officially launched in December, but even before then, a few firms had taken the, ahem, leap. Since 2005, Jody Wallace, who owns a PIU franchise in Ohio, has hosted about two events a month for local divisions of Procter & Gamble, GE, Yellow Book and Ryan Homes. She says she got the idea partly from watching parents sheepishly try out the equipment at their children's parties. "They got just as excited as the kids," she says...