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...Since Yuri Gagarin first blasted into the heavens in 1961, manned space flight has been a strictly government-run affair. That ended on June 21 when MIKE MELVILL flew to an altitude of 100.1 km on SpaceShipOne, a private rocket-powered plane funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. After gliding safely to earth, Melvill was more exultant than eloquent. He climbed atop the dart-shaped craft and whooped, "Yeeee-haaah...
...Today's kids want the coolest, fastest ride-on toys," says Carlton Calvin, president of Razor USA, which sells the Razor Pocket Rocket bike ($230). "The play pattern of racing and the freedom of transportation never go out of style...
Last Thursday night, a rocket fired by the Pakistani army arced across the sky of Waziristan and slammed into an adobe farmhouse, instantly killing five men, including tribal chieftain Nek Mohammed, its intended target. An ex-Taliban commander fond of flamboyant turbans, firearms and having his own way in the largely lawless region of Waziristan, Mohammed was wanted on both sides of the nearby border with Afghanistan?by U.S. forces and the Pakistani army?for aiding and giving refuge to fighters from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda...
...DIED. SHINSUKE HASHIDA, 61, veteran Japanese war correspondent, and his nephew KOTARO OGAWA, 33; after their car was attacked with a rocket-propelled grenade by unknown assailants; near Baghdad. Bodies believed to belong to Hashida and an Iraqi translator were found in the car; Ogawa escaped the vehicle but is thought to have been captured by the attackers and shot to death. The two were returning from a visit to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces camp in Samawah...
Israel has fresh problems in Gaza, where a roadside bomb killed six Israeli soldiers last week. Five more died in a rocket-propelled-grenade attack near the Egyptian border, and two were killed while trying to recover their remains. The bombing stoked fears that the Lebanese militia Hizballah is getting better at moving its signature explosives into the area. A senior Hamas official tells TIME that the roadside bomb was smuggled into Gaza, though he would not say from where. The explosives were probably brought in through a tunnel passing under the Egyptian border or by sea, say Israeli military...