Word: reared
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...Mission team chairman John Shannon said that, according to his team's analysis, the damage should pose no risk to the astronaut crew on the return home. There is, however, potential for more damage to the shuttle itself on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere when temperatures in the rear of the ship could reach 2300 degrees Fahrenheit. Shannon and his team will now have to decide what to do next. And the results of that decision will reflect the success of reforms set in place after the last shuttle disaster...
...NICKNAME, THE GALLOPing Ghost, recalled comic-book superheroes--a fitting image for one of the greatest naval commanders of World War II. As the daring skipper of the U.S.S. Barb, Rear Admiral Eugene Fluckey led missions that even his jaded bosses called "epic": nighttime raids that downed a stunning 29 Japanese ships, among them an aircraft carrier, destroyer and cruiser. Credited with destroying more tonnage than any other skipper, Fluckey was awarded the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses...
...movement discover that men, all too often, have a far less liberated view of the wife's role in marriage? Do the burgeoning ranks of single women mean an outbreak of Sex and the City promiscuity? And what about children? When a woman makes the empowering decision to rear a child on her own, what are the consequences, for mother and child...
...when the clashes began last week and the army was caught by surprise by Fatah al-Islam attacks. Today, some armed locals took up positions in the hills and in the nearby villages, on the lookout for Fatah al-Islam supporters who might try to attack the army's rear position. "We want the army to go in and finish them off," says Faisal Obeid, 35, a civilian in Hamra who joined the fighting in support of the army two weeks ago. "We are willing to go into the camps and help...
...trustees that "the new will be as new as can be, but the old will be preserved." If anything, he amplified the classicism of the space behind the old building by positioning the longest and most conventionally rectangular of his lenses at a perpendicular to the museum's rear façade. That created a square courtyard with a serene reflecting pool where the parking lot used...