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...International Space Station program and a boost of $3 billion a year in NASA funding. The panel says the future of U.S. manned space flight is on an "unsustainable trajectory" and that the agency's annual budget of $18 billion is not enough to support what "really is rocket science...
...Fairfield was also contained offensively, registering only a quarter of their total shots in the first 45 minutes. However, things began to heat up for Harvard in the 32nd minute of play, under the leadership of standout co-captain Andre Akpan. The Grand Prairie, Texas native fired an unassisted rocket into the Stags’ net, recording the only goal of the first period standstill. “We battled a team that sat in and defended with a lot of numbers,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “It took us a lot of time...
...years back, the Taliban commander thought his personal war with the Americans was over when he surrendered his Toyota Land Cruiser, a stack of rocket-propelled grenades and his personal weapons to the police chief in Kandahar. Mullah A, who prefers not to be identified, was exhausted. In late 2001, when U.S.-backed forces were pushing into northern Afghanistan, the commander saw most of his men wiped out by heavy American bombardment. He was one of the few survivors, and he fled south, back home to Kandahar, convinced that his fighting days had come...
...rage and also out of fear for his own life, Mullah A rejoined the Taliban. Nowadays, he and his men ambush U.S.-led coalition targets in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, and he brags to TIME that recently his outfit blasted a dozen rocket-propelled grenades into the NATO base at Kandahar. (See pictures of U.S. Marines at war in Afghanistan's Kunar province...
...Hamas, for its part, was similarly dismissive of the report's findings on its rocket fire. "This report equates the victim with the aggressor," said Hamas Gaza spokseman Ismael Radwan, a statement that sums up the Israeli position, too. At the very heart of the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, after all, is the question of just who is the victim...