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Bryce Avary, performing as The Rocket Summer, writes all of his own lyrics, belts them out with a wonderfully unique voice, and plays all of the instruments any self-respecting band needs himself. Witness the multi-tasking (and take in stage-sharers Starla) for $8. 9 p.m. The Middle East, 472-480 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...Chinese have long looked to the skies--at least since Wan Hu, a 16th century official, lashed 47 gunpowder rockets to a chair with kites attached to it, ignited the rockets and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. With technology having improved significantly since then, the Chinese are on the verge of sending a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a secret launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou (divine vessel), a capsule carrying China's first astronaut. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit, circle the globe 14 times...
...Staff claims that Israel’s attack “ended the 30-year truce” between Israel and Syria. Funny that the “truce” was not ended by the Hezbollah mortar and rocket attacks on northern Israel that have persisted over that 30-year period. Hezbollah has always been based in Syria and in fact receives funding from the Syrian government. But despite this 30-year history of deadly terrorist incursions into northern Israel by a group supported by Syria, the Staff identifies Israel as violating the supposed truce that only...
...have started later than Russia or the U.S., but it's amazing how fast we've been able to do this." Xie Guangxuan, director of the mainland's China Rocket Design Department, on the manned space mission scheduled...
...will ... defend itself whenever [it] is convinced that Syria is assisting the Palestinian terrorist organizations." Metula (pop. 2,000) and the other small towns along Israel's northern border have seen violent times before. During Israel's 18-year occupation of a strip of southern Lebanon, there were occasional rocket attacks. Now they are once again vulnerable as tension between Israel and Syria mounts. President Bashar Assad accused Israel of "trying to terrorize Syria and drag it and the region into other wars." Syrian officials denied that the training camp was active, but Israel says the base...