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...mission involves other innovations. The Hayabusa ("falcon") spacecraft is powered not by a conventional liquid chemical rocket but by an ionized-xenon-gas engine, a propulsion system that is 10 times more efficient. Just as novel is a half-kilogram rover that Hayabusa will dispatch to roam the asteroid for several days. The robot, named Minerva, will use its miniature cameras and thermometers to send data back to the mothership. Since wheels are useless on such low-gravity surfaces, the coffee-can-sized machine will maneuver using an internal pendulum?a swinging weight that will let the bot hop about...
Opponents could pick their poison last season, covering Mazza or Brian Edwards ’05. Most chose the latter, but when opposing secondaries double- or triple-teamed Edwards, Mazza was left to roam free...
Since the start of the insurgency in Iraq, the most persistent danger to U.S. troops has come from the Sunni Arab insurgents and terrorists who roam the center and west of the country. But some U.S. officials are worried about a potentially greater challenge to order in Iraq and U.S. interests there: the growing influence of Iran. With an elected Shi'ite-dominated government in place in Baghdad and the U.S. preoccupied with quelling the Sunni-led insurgency, the Iranian regime has deepened its imprint on the political and social fabric of Iraq, buying influence in the new Iraqi government...
...outwit the bombers. They have sent $460 million worth of electronic jamming equipment to Iraq to disrupt the remote devices that insurgents use to detonate bombs. Predator drones, robot bomb detectors and dogs have been deployed to sniff out explosives. "Hunter-killer" teams from the task force roam Baghdad in armored vehicles equipped with optical and laser devices to fry any bombs that are found. "This is a pro team of terrorists we're facing in Iraq, and we're working every day to beat them," says Lieut. Colonel Ernest Benner, a former operations chief of the task force, whose...
...used as a depot for a handful of vehicles. The compound is lifeless, with not even a seagull in sight. Across the road at the Helliniko Olympic Complex, venues for another seven sports - baseball, basketball, canoeing and kayaking, fencing, handball, hockey and softball - gather dust. Posses of stray dogs roam across the expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over dented fences and garbage mounds pile up behind chained gates. Greece's military is keeping watch over some of the 22 venues - including the main Olympic stadium - for which the state is trying to find a permanent use. Maintenance...