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Arkansas is home to Wal-Mart, and Hicks’ correct response and bold wager were enough to boost him over a retired rocket scientist into first place...
Team chemistry seems like a vague cause for such a clear effect. Athletes, not intangibles, are supposed to rocket teams from near-worst to first, but no new talent has joined the Crimson. If anything, Harvard is playing with fewer weapons this season. The Crimson (13-8) graduated one of its best all-time player last spring, Harvard career kills leader Erin Denniston...
...this particular occasion, the value was limited. Two complexes suspected of being al-Qaeda staging posts were discovered with caches of hundreds of rocket-propelled grenade rounds, mines and ammunition, but the enemy was nowhere to be found; the most threatening local seemed to be an old woman carrying a hatchet over her shoulder and complaining about her uninvited guests...
...weeks ago, the unnerving game of tit-for-tat appeared to be escalating. When Pakistan tested its Shaheen missile system (capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the Indian capital of New Delhi) India retorted with its own provocative rocket launch within hours. Surprisingly, however, such brinkmanship may have spooked both nations enough to force a breakthrough in relations. When New Delhi announced on Wednesday that it was pulling back some of its 500,000 troops posted along its border with Pakistan, Islamabad said it would follow suit, and everyone concerned about potential nuclear holocaust in South Asia exhaled...
...Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty." JOHN CARMACK, computer programming genius, on his plan to conduct a privately funded, manned space mission