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...Both Palestinian and Israeli sources say that Hamas leaders are trying to persuade Islamic Jihad to halt terrorist attacks against Israel, at least for the time being. To an extent, this seems to have worked; Islamic Jihad has limited its recent actions against Israel to a few rocket attacks. But Palestinian sources say that Islamic Jihad is wary of joining Hamas in government, uncertain how Hamas will handle Israel. "They are willing to support Hamas?but from the outside," says one Palestinian familiar with the talks...
...rockets--both adapted from shuttle engines--will get all this hardware into space. The larger of the two will loft the lunar lander and other equipment into Earth orbit. A second, smaller rocket will follow, carrying the CEV. The crew vehicle and the lander will then link up and fly off to the moon...
...question about how his right arm feels. He’s eventually headed to a dinner for the Delphic, an undergraduate final club.The arm is part of the package that brought Salsgiver to Cambridge in the first place. In baseball jargon, it’s a hose, a rocket, a gun—clocked as high as 93 MPH, it’s one of five professional-grade “tools” that the right fielder employs in his impressive repertoire.The other four (speed, fielding, hitting for average, and hitting for power) are nothing to sneeze at either...
...great view of the 'hood (and a nosy peek at residents' backyards), climb the 216-m-high, Soviet rocket-like TV tower to its indoor viewing deck. Crawling up and down the tower's pillars are provocateur Czech artist David Cerny's large black babies?definitely more David Lynch than Merchant Ivory. 1 Mahlerovy sady...
...Mahmad, an officer in theAfghan national police, was on his way to Sangin, in southwestern Afghanistan, last month when he found himself fighting for his life. He was traveling in a police convoy of five dilapidated pickup trucks armed with a modest arsenal of rocket launchers and AK-47s. As the patrol neared Sangin, Mahmad, 22, heard gunshots. He looked up to see that the man riding next to him was dead. Soon they were surrounded by Taliban guerrillas who had charged from the hilltops shouting "Allahu akbar." Five policemen were killed before commanders called in air support...