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...International Space Station come about? The first practical space station plans date back half a century to the German rocket scientist Werner von Braun, who was brought to the United States after World War II and would ignite America's part in the space race. After developing the rockets that took astronauts to the moon, he turned his attention to the idea of a permanently manned space station. He planned for orbiting wheels that would slowly spin to provide the kind of artificial gravity that would allow hundreds of people to work in an Earth-like environment. But the cost...
...moves mostly designed for domestic consumption, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat are burning the almost completely collapsed bridges that lead back to the peace process. Israeli helicopters launched new rocket attacks on Palestinian Authority buildings in the West Bank and Gaza overnight, making good on warnings by the Israeli defense minister that Israel plans to ratchet up its level of force in dealing with what he described as "guerrilla warfare" by the Palestinians. And Arafat responded that the raids could not "shake one eyelash from the eyelashes of a Palestinian child holding a Palestinian stone to defend holy Jerusalem...
...50th minute, LaBarre collected a pass from senior Brad Chirstof and blasted a long shot from over 25 yards out. The rocket knifed through the wind and appeared to be heading over the goal but dipped under the crossbar at the last second to give Dartmouth a devastating 2-0 lead...
...Israel's adversaries found a new way to fight. They used infantry (equipped with small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and antitank guided missiles). In response, Israel put mortars on its tanks and practiced seizing the high ground in order to bring fire against enemy infantrymen...
...overvalued--just as were a number of other Internet companies at the time. "The market is finally reverting to rational analysis," says David Webb, editor of the financial-monitoring site Webb-site.com which had valued CyberWorks' shares at just 54[cents] in February. "The company can't resume its rocket-like trajectory." CyberWorks has declined to comment on its business strategy, but Li, the son of shipping and real estate billionaire Li Ka-Shing, says the fact that Cable & Wireless' shares were initially snapped up by buyers showed "confidence in and support for our business plans and our overall strategy...