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...concluded that the CIA wouldn't be able to gather intelligence quickly enough to meet the unseen threats posed by Iran, Iraq and North Korea. That dire prediction--reinforced by a North Korean missile launch a month later--turbocharged the nation's push to build a $100 billion missile shield, now under construction...
...looking Noonan’s closest brush with aerial death so far took place in his uncle’s small plane. “The plane was too high up and so the propellers froze,” he recalls. “Thick ice covered the wind shield. Everybody in the plane started screaming. That was my scariest moment...
Professor Suga, clad in a bright yellow Columbia rain jacket to shield himself from the elements, is intent on preserving the afternoon for posterity and doesn’t mind exposing his Sony digital camera to the rain. An associate professor of Asian folklore at the University of Tokyo visiting Harvard as a Yenching Visiting Scholar, Suga spends at least as much time watching the game through his camera lens as he does with his own eyes—snapping not only practically every at-bat of the game but also every section of the park, the mandatory group picture...
Plans for a $100 billion shield to protect the U.S. against missile attacks from terrorists or rogue states like North Korea are moving full speed ahead. But budget concerns may force a sharp cutback in tests to make sure that the system works. The Pentagon plan originally called for 20 tests by 2009 to prove that a new fleet of interceptor rockets could find and destroy missiles fired toward the U.S. But a revised testing scheme to be delivered to Congress this summer--and outlined in budget documents circulating on Capitol Hill--cuts back that schedule to only nine test...
...students at the Law School demanded a speech code for their peers. After a string of racially-charged incidents last year, a representative from the Black Law Students Association asked that the Committee on Healthy Diversity expand the Law School’s anti-harassment code in order to shield students from future racial insensitivity, specifically from racist speech...