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...Players: Tim Brown, Bryant Young, Jerome Bettis, Steve Beuerlein, Rocket Ismail, Bobby Taylor, Ricky Watters, John Carney, Derrick Mayes...
...Arafat's people, as an expression of solidarity following the air strike in Lebanon, ahead of Arafat's visit to Syria next week. So you have a sequence of events that starts with a demonstration in Beirut against Syria's presence in Lebanon, which prompted a Syrian-mandated Hezbollah rocket attack on Israeli forces at Shebaa Farms - which they knew would provoke an Israeli response, in this case an air strike, that would justify Syria's presence. But the air strike prompted a Palestinian mortar attack that led to the bulldozing of a neighborhood in Gaza. That's the Middle...
Plenty of money is needed. Paull's team built a scramjet for just $750,000 but it has no body attached and hitches a ride on a former U.S. Navy rocket. The American version is also unready for boarding: the X-43 is only 4 m long, 1.6 m wide and 60 cm thick. But the leaders of world aeronautics seem to believe the future is hypersonic. nasa has invested $185 million in Hyper-X and partly funds Paull's work at the University of Queensland...
...blunder may actually have been another Nobel-worthy prediction. Using the Hubble Space Telescope to find and study a distant supernova--an exploding star-- astronomers from two rival research teams have jointly gathered the strongest evidence yet that the expansion of the universe is actually speeding up, like a rocket with its throttle wide open. And that means something is pushing...
...Israeli reservists shouldn't be too surprised if they find themselves spending more time with their units in the near future. Three Syrian soldiers were reported killed and a number were injured in the air strike on a Syrian radar facility near Beirut, bombed in retribution for a Saturday rocket attack by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas that killed an Israeli soldier in the Shebaa Farms district that abuts Lebanon, Syria and Israel. And the Syrians condemned the move as a "dangerous escalation...