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...fuel and its cabin empty of crew. Landing on the surface, the craft would begin pumping Martian atmosphere--which is 95% carbon dioxide--into a reaction chamber, where it would be exposed to hydrogen and broken down into methane, water and oxygen. Methane and oxygen make a first-rate rocket fuel; water and oxygen are necessary human fuels. All these consumables could be pumped into tanks inside the ship and stored there...
...ROCKET SCIENCE In the future, missiles loom as the key Chinese weapon for intimidating, and perhaps attacking, Taiwan. That's why Taiwan is eager to develop, with U.S. help, a missile shield. Such a system, however, would use much of the same difficult and costly technology that doomed the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. Perfecting it now will be daunting--if not impossible. EDGE China, which could try to use the threat of missile attack to lure Taiwan back to the motherland...
...invention made skyscrapers feasible 3. A __ bagatelle 4. He's not interested in the Veep slot 5. Org. once headed by a Bush 6. The Pope is visiting here 7. French pastry 8. Middle name of the 21st President 9. Saucy 10. Business card abbr. 12. Like some rocket fuel 19. O Sole __ 21. Car in a 1964 hit song 24. Rocky, for one 25. Absorbed, as a loss 26. Sought a seat 28. Like some vbs. 29. Soccer standout Hamm 30. 20/20 network 34. Tapes over, perhaps 35. __ deferens 36. AMD is shipping this 1 GHz chip 37. Moral...
...meantime, thousands of unpublished writers in the U.S. are turning to the Web, CD-ROMS and new devices such as the Rocket eBook as potential outlets for their work. While their experiences aren't as compelling as the King episode, a number of them are finding a place to be seen. Melisse Shapiro put her erotic thriller, Lip Service (under the pseudonym M.J. Rose), on the Web in 1998 after getting rejected by several publishers. "My goal was to get a couple of thousand readers and go back with a new novel to publishers and show them...
...minute sequence in the first half, Brown's sophomore netminder rejected four Harvard shots, including a point blank rocket off a free position...