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...oath" in which he promised to kill anyone attempting to infiltrate the militia and seek retribution if any member was arrested. Even as he took the oath, he was wearing a body wire. Over the next few months he reported that Viper Gary Bauer allegedly boasted about a rocket he built that could "take out a police car." Finis Walker, a Viper "captain," said the group's heavy weapons were needed to deal with swat teams, and the explosives were necessary to destroy heavy armor. Soon after the group began to discuss "urban warfare" and "race riots and martial...
...which would be built in nearby Palmdale, looks like no other spacecraft, and when Gore reached for a model airship shaped like a giant piece of pie, the group burst into applause. Undaunted, the Vice President plunged on with his scripted gag, "You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand the importance of this moment...
...unimaginative prose that waxed rhapsodic about G-forces and interstellar trajectories. It wasn't quite fair even then; early works by authors such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke relied as much on clever plot twists and thought-provoking views of societal evolution as on visions of rocket ships and interplanetary travel. Still, there was sufficient truth for the stereotype to sting...
...sprinter, but his upper body is like no sprinter's on earth. It looks more like a bag of rocks lashed together with steel cable. He hauls all this bulk to the end of the runway, then plants 17 ft. of fiber glass into the ground and proceeds to rocket, upside-down, toward the bar hanging nearly 20 ft. above his head. He has barely cleared the bar when one official turns to the other with an unusual confession. "Damn," he exclaims. "Check out Bubka. Wish that guy'd agree to be my wife's sperm donor...
...doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that switching from a government-controlled society to a Russian-style "democracy" would create nothing but utter chaos. Who can blame the people for wanting to return to what they think is a form of normality? HOLLI STROZZO Statesboro, Georgia Via E-mail...