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Picture an ocean as vast as continental Australia. Then double it. You're looking at an area larger than either the Arctic Ocean or Antarctica. It's certainly not as chilly as those two extremities, but that's the size of the ocean and continental shelf over which Australia claims control. While a 15 million-sq.-km maritime zone cannot possibly be protected in the usual sense, the fact that this briny buffer exists offers some peace of mind in an era of terrorism and illegal immigrants. A tight border-control regime means shuffling money, people, electronics, boats and airplanes...
...cost $1.4 billion to design and build and nearly $2 billion to fly. When NASA adopted its "faster, better, cheaper" philosophy in the 1990s, it drove the cost of its unmanned ships down to the range of a couple of hundred million dollars--mostly by relying on off-the-shelf parts and eliminating redundant systems...
...NASA scientists are impressed by these plans. Many believe there would be plenty of money to fly top-shelf ships if the space agency would drop its preoccupation with manned space travel. The International Space Station has been a scientific black hole, swallowing nearly $100 billion and delivering little of real value. President Bush's manned moon-Mars initiative will cost at least $170 billion--and that's from an agency that has never met a cost estimate it couldn't overrun. Forget the fixation with getting bodies in orbit or boots in the soil, critics say, and you could...
Every war has unintended consequences, and literature is usually one of them. The recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have already begotten a shelf of new memoirs by soldiers and embedded journalists, documents that arrive months after the insta-news of cable and the Internet, but hit harder and go deeper...
...AVOID TRANS-FATTY ACIDS AND PARTLY HYDROGENATED FATS ("BAD FATS"). They increase the shelf life of food products but decrease the shelf life of people who eat them...