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...shaken awake, which must happen at least 10 times in Deathly Hallows, to the point where the poor guy comes off as practically narcoleptic. And one more: Must Rowling insist on making evil people short, fat or ugly, or all three? Must, for example, Sirius's death-eating brother Regulus be "smaller, slighter and rather less handsome than Sirius had been"? I know there are exceptions - Tom Riddle was once slitheringly handsome, before he lost his nose - but it's not an appealing trend. Short, fat, ugly people have enough problems without being evil...
...typical model is about 20 ft. long and 20 in. in diameter) and relatively cheap (well under $1 million each). Different versions have been successfully test-fired from submerged submarines, surface ships and B-52 bombers. Most earlier versions of the cruise-such as the Mace, the Snark and Regulus I-were primarily tactical weapons. Technological advances in recent years have given their successors, the Navy's Tomahawk and the Air Force's ALCM, a powerful, strategic wallop. Guided by miniaturized computers and powered by tiny jet engines, these low-flying cruises have ranges of more than...
...MICHAEL E. BEAVER U.S.S. Regulus...
First, the star-sighter locked on Alderamin. Then it fixed its gaze on Regulus. Another roll on its axis, and Mariner picked out Naos, then a multistar cluster near Naos. Finally, when Mariner was 360,000 miles from earth, its electronic eye found a star bright enough to send the proper radio report: Mariner had locked on Canopus...
...accumulating momentum of missilery, U.S. missilemen fired successful test shots of Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic mis siles, got off a Polaris intermediate-range missile that traveled 1,100 miles, sent three Bomarc defensive missiles after fastmoving targets, and hit them (one Bomarc intercepted a supersonic Regulus II missile). And, only one week after an X-15 plane set a new speed record for piloted aircraft, the same X-15 climbed to an altitude of more than 131,000 ft., higher than any plane had ever soared before...