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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right place at the right time, and had a little luck," he says. "He ran into my missile." He had to wait for an AWACS to confirm that it was a foe before taking it on. "That all took about 20, 30 sec., but it seemed like it lasted an hour," he recalls. "Your hands, your eyes, your mouth--everything goes into training mode," he said. "Combat still scares the hell...
FUND FEES ADD UP No matter how much cash Americans plow into mutual funds--$5.5 trillion at last count--most still can't get a handle on what they're paying managers to run them. So last week the SEC introduced an interactive calculator www.sec.gov to show how those confounding fees--front-end loads (sales-charges), expense ratios--add up over time. Two $15 billion large-growth funds--one load, one no-load--can generate very different costs. Use the calculator to help find out if your fund managers are worth the price...
...rocket did nothing at all, then suddenly it leaped from the ground and screamed into the sky at 60 m.p.h. Climbing to an altitude of 41 ft., it arced over, plummeted earthward and slammed into a frozen cabbage patch 184 ft. away. The entire flight lasted just 2 1/2 sec.--but that was 2 1/2 sec. longer than any liquid-fueled rocket had ever managed to fly before...
...convinced he could shortcut this laborious process by creating a camera that did all the work itself, and by 1947 he had done it. Instead of conventional film, the Polaroid Land Camera was loaded with photographic paper coated with a paste of light-sensitive chemicals. A mere 60 sec. after the photographer tripped the shutter, out popped a snapshot. The first Polaroids were black-and-white; the company introduced color in 1963. Land's invention added a new dimension to photography, but for him it was just another stop on a long scientific journey. He went on to do basic...
...space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 sec. after lift...