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...middle of the Pacific, another rocket was launched on Kwajalein Island. It contained an infrared sensor powerful enough to detect heat from a human body 1,000 miles away. Closing at 15,000 m.p.h., the rocket locked onto the ICBM, intercepting it in midflight and destroying it by sheer physical impact. So devastating was the hit that the remaining shards of the ICBM's warhead measured less than an inch across...
...rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E's are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered form the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect...
Brock's book is not to be automatically dismissed. Although many of his sources are anonymous, the sheer volume of interviews and intensive examination of the minutiae of the case make for a persuasive argument...
...sheer persistence (and sleaziness), no reporter could touch Gary Wynn of "Inside Edition." First, he tried to make a deal...
Only . . . statistics, and even the view from rooftop level, give little idea of the sheer extent of inundation. That can really be glimpsed only from the air, as by the crew of a U.S. Coast Guard Dolphin helicopter that flew over the St. Louis area last week to survey the damage and scout places where it might later land to evacuate flood victims. The seemingly endless expanse of water made visual navigation difficult by submerging the landmarks pilots usually look for. Long stretches of highway and railroad tracks were invisible; river islands had disappeared; the river channels themselves could...