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Last week it was reported that aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is sponsoring a study that pays volunteers $1,000 apiece to ingest perchlorate--a pollutant found in rocket fuel--every day for six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Poke in the Eye For Five Bucks? | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...third period proved that Crothers wasn't invincible, with the Bears denting the scoreboard twice off him. The Bears second goal came on a slapshot that caught Crothers out of position and unable to handle the rocket...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boyz II Jimenez: Rookie Wins First Start | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...latest clashes between Israelis and Palestinians are what Israelis are calling a "near war." Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority is de-emphasizing both the demonstrations that cost so many Palestinian lives in the early weeks of the intifadeh and the rifle assaults on Jewish neighborhoods that drew tank and rocket attacks on Palestinian homes. Instead it seems Palestinian security forces are aiming to hit Jewish settlers and the soldiers who protect them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The War Zone | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...father work on his car and make repairs around the house. The boys built their own toys, turning bamboo tubes into pressurized chinaberry shooters and transplanting a lawn-mower motor onto a go-cart. Once, Johnson caused an explosion in his mother's kitchen while mixing, of all things, rocket fuel. He had got the recipe from a library book, using saltpeter and sugar. As it cooked on the stove, the mixture bubbled to the surface, filling the kitchen with so much smoke that young Lonnie couldn't see his hands, and burned a chair. "The only thing I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soaking In Success | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...will be a year before the first of the minisatellites take to space, but the companies stand to make up to $4 million per fully loaded rocket--a nice payday for a missile designed for Doomsday. --By Jeffrey Kluger

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swords Into Plowshares: How Business Learned To Love Russian Missiles | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

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