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...Isabel briefly exploded into a Category 5 storm, wind shear was low, and its eyewall formed a nearly flawless cone of clouds some 60,000 ft. high. In the eyewall itself, winds whirled at an epic 230 m.p.h. "When we got into the eye," says Colorado State University atmospheric scientist Michael Montgomery, who flew through the eerie stillness at the storm's core, "it was like being in the middle of a beautiful coliseum...
...been hidden. Kamel had actually testified that Iraq had destroyed its chemical and biological weapons after the Gulf War, but that blueprints, computer files and molds for missile parts had been hidden. This echoes the case of the uranium centrifuge handed over to U.S. inspectors in June by Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi, who had followed orders to keep it buried in his rose garden - since...
...Project. After the war, Teller pushed for the "super"--the H-bomb. The rabid anticommunist became a scientific pariah in the 1950s for implying that his former boss, Manhattan Project head J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a security risk. Teller was considered the model for Dr. Strangelove, the bomb-loving scientist in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 movie. In the 1980s, Teller backed Ronald Reagan's nukes-based Star Wars program--a technology so complex that many scientists thought it impossible to build. Even so, the mere threat forced the Soviet Union to try designing its own, a costly decision some analysts...
...nation International Space Station project, which includes space neophytes such as Belgium. China's once lucrative satellite-launch industry has been devastated by U.S. sanctions preventing the country from launching commercial satellites that use American components. And last year, the U.S. refused to grant visas to some Chinese scientists invited to participate in the World Space Congress in Houston, even though several were slated to present papers there. Physicist Sun Huixian was so angry about the American cold shoulder that he ordered his staff to use European equipment instead. A scientist who designs data-transmission systems for Shenzhou's scientific...
...indeed, both are growing more than the euro zone. But the euro isn't to blame for Continental stagnation; the parlous finances and lack of reform in Germany, France and Italy are. "We are a small, orderly country that plays by the rules," says Olof Ruin, a Stockholm political scientist, "and there was skepticism over France and Germany's failure to abide by the rules." The absence of Sweden's 9 million people will hardly be noticed by the 300 million who currently use the euro. "It's now clear that the euro is not for everyone," says Holger Schmieding...