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...There've already been four successful flights of SpaceShipOne, which is the basic technology. People have been extremely skeptical about almost everything I've ever launched. I think we've proven that we deliver on things we say we're going to deliver on. And we certainly will deliver on this...
...meant to deter him from writing credulously about Wilson or at least from lending weight to charges that Cheney's office had deliberately ignored Wilson's findings. "What he was trying to do was discourage Cooper from printing allegations about the Vice President that were going to be proven false," Luskin says. While it was true that the Administration ultimately had to retract their claims about yellowcake, Wilson was seen as overstating the importance of his mission; the yellowcake charge should not have been in the President's speech because the evidence remained inconclusive. CIA officials told the Senate Intelligence...
...world oil prices creep past $60 a barrel, China has stepped up its search for proven reserves?witness state-controlled oil giant CNOOC's effort to acquire California-based Unocal over protests from U.S. politicians. On home soil, Beijing now battles its own people. More than 10,000 investors, mostly peasants, secured rights to drill for oil in Shaanxi over the past decade, only to see their holdings nationalized. The drillers characterize the government's strategy as "confiscate now, compensate later," and those who have been paid insist they have not been given enough. In May and June, police arrested...
...study released last week, SPH researchers found that, since the invasion and the subsequent seven-month occupation, mortality rates have proven substantially higher among older Kuwaiti civilians who stayed in the country through the occupation than among Kuwaiti nationals who were outside the country during that period...
Healthy middle-aged women are pretty darned healthy, and most do not need regular doses of aspirin or vitamin E. Their best bets are to stick with proven strategies like quitting smoking, being physically active and eating lots of fruits and vegetables...