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...these secret spies in the sky have a problem: they're not so secret. Too heavy to lift without a fiery rocket plume and too bright to avoid being seen from Earth, the NRO's birds are hard to hide. And an international band of amateur astronomers has determined to find, track and webcast the location of all the members of this orbital fleet for anyone who cares to look--including such less than friendly sorts as Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong...
...close out the second quarter, Wich accepted a pass from Watson with 30 seconds left and blasted a rocket past McClammer to push the score to 3-1 in Harvard's favor...
...jonesing for action and strategizing have lots of terrific games to chose from that don't involve splattering body parts--for example, Donkey Kong 64 ($59.99 from Nintendo) or Crash Team Racing ($39.99 from Sony). According to Francis Mao, vice president of Game Pro Magazine, Chu Chu Rocket ($29.99 from Sega) has even the Quake fanatics at the magazine hooked. Here at TIME, we're digging the new Shogun: Total War ($39.95 from Electronic Arts), which is more about strategy than swordfighting. As always, a family should keep its PC and gaming console in a public place in the home...
...spectacle of rockets raining down on northern Israel has got to have Hafez Assad grinning - if he's able to, since a British newspaper reported over the weekend that the Syrian president recently suffered an incapacitating stroke. But Assad certainly has reason to smile, because the latest exchange of fire between the Jewish state and the Hezbollah guerrilla fighters just across the border casts a shadow over Israel's plan to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon without first concluding a land-for-peace deal with Syria. Hezbollah fired Katyushka rockets into the town of Shlomi on Friday, killing one soldier...
...have driven Israel from Arab territory. Instead of being reined in by the heavy hand of Damascus, the guerrilla movement found itself at liberty to step up attacks to reinforce its claim to the mantle of Lebanon's liberators. In the unilateral withdrawal scenario, Israel's only defense against rocket attacks on its northern population centers is the promise that retaliation would be swift and brutal. But Thursday's air strikes, designed to disable Lebanon's infrastructure, didn't deter Hezbollah from hitting back Friday, underlining the impression that without the Syrians imposing order, unilateral withdrawal...