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...more important is the ship itself. The shuttles have been pricey, lethal failures for a lot of reasons. They?re too complicated, too finicky, and they break too many rules of safe space travel. Until the shuttle, no human being had ever been launched into space with solid-fuel rockets - comparatively primitive motors that burn a sort of rubbery goo and can neither be throttled up and down nor shut off once they?re lit. The shuttle?s two external engines burn solid fuel, and it was one of those that destroyed the Challenger. Moreover, until the shuttle, the crew...
Abdul Salaam Rocketi, a former frontline Mujahedin commander in Afghanistan, earned a surname that reflects his prowess with rocket-propelled grenades and spent eight months in detention after U.S.-led forces drove out the Taliban in 2001. Now, as a member of the Afghan parliament, he encourages his former Taliban comrades to reconcile with the government of President Hamid Karzai. But he can't visit his constituency in the southern district of Zabul because security is terrible and he's received too many assassination threats. Rocketi is grateful for foreign aid, but frustrated that donors regularly cough up so much...
...Internal Security, who is sometimes mentioned as a replacement for Peretz: "Emotions are running high right now. In Israel we have one chief of staff and 1 million unofficial chiefs of staff. Everyone has an opinion." Once Israelis see that the United Nations peacekeeping force can halt the rocket fire from southern Lebanon, says Dichter, tempers will cool. In the rose garden, however, more reservists join the protests every day. They swear they won't leave until Olmert does...
...NASA lost the original film of the moon landing. Well, you know, in their defense, they're not exactly rocket scientists." DAVID LETTERMAN...
...Israel has little appetite for keeping its forces in southern Lebanon, where they will become increasingly vulnerable to guerrilla attack. Rather than going after the Hizballah arms caches, rocket arsenals and bunkers in the areas they control, Israel has ordered its troops simply to defend themselves from direct attack. To systematically pursue Hizballah fighters south of the Litani would effectively restart the war, and add to the Israeli casualty toll in pursuit of limited gains...