Word: rocketed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
David Spergel watched with particular interest one balmy afternoon this past June when a Delta rocket roared into space from Cape Canaveral, carrying an 1,800-lb. satellite on a mission to probe the outer edges of the universe. Not only did the 40-year-old Princeton astrophysicist expect to spend the next few months deciphering the data that the Microwave Anisotropy Probe beams back from space but he was also part of the team that dreamed up the mission and designed the satellite that would carry...
...craft has a 247-foot wingspan and solar panels that power the 14 propellers that keep it aloft, and Tuesday it traveled higher (96,500 feet) than any other non-rocket-powered plane. The possible uses are twofold. NASA hopes that this test will help it to design aircraft that can fly in the thin Martian atmosphere. And some entrepreneurial sorts think that eventually a network of these high-flying birds could serve as low-cost alternatives to communications satellites...
...Today, residents of the one-ox towns immediately bordering ExxonMobil's facilities in Aceh seem ready to storm the ramparts. Many of these towns have become breeding grounds for the rebel movement and, in some, the gam's fighters can be seen resting, rusted rifles and rocket launchers strapped over their shoulders. They are fighting the Indonesian military. But they are also fighting ExxonMobil. Late last year, the rebels began targeting the company's employees and property, forcing it in March to suspend its operations. The townspeople say it is good the rebels are attacking ExxonMobil. In some places, people...
Never mind Roger Clemens vs. Mike Piazza - if the Rocket was trying to hit the Mets' Big Bad Blonde with that broken bat, Piazza would have spent the off-season in surgery. And never mind National League v. American League, senior circuit vs. junior circuit - any real All-Star rivalry between the leagues (and it was always tenuous at best) has long since evaporated in a haze of free agency and interleague play...
...Palestinians say the seven-day hiatus in violence that kicks off a six-week "cooling off" period began last Wednesday; the Israelis say it has yet to begin. A weekend that included Palestinian militants killed in an Israeli rocket attack and two car bombs detonated deep inside Israel appeared to render the discussion moot, and the more immediate countdown now may be the one that ends with the collapse of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire, which will be followed by a race between Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Secretary of State Colin Powell to be the first...