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...here's why Defense Secretary Robert Gates kept discussions on the Pentagon's 2010 budget so secret that he swore the military's high command to silence ahead of the budget's unveiling. Aiming to shift military spending priorities from billion-dollar Cold War-era weapons to the simpler armored vehicles and spy drones needed for the "wars we are in today and scenarios for the years ahead," Gates on Monday proposed, among other things, to end funding of the advanced F-22 Raptor fighter. That cut alone will spark fierce resistance on Capitol Hill, but it's only...
...Using a method that measures gasses emitted by small tremors, Giuliani, it turns out, was partially right. A much smaller seismic shift struck on the day he said it would, with the truly disastrous one arriving just one week later. "Someone owes me an apology," Giuliani, who is also a resident of L'Aquila, told reporters on Monday. "The situation here is dramatic. I am devastated but also angry...
...environmentally beneficial. But the mere absence of hard copies is not a solution to the larger problem of the current guidebooks, print or online. In their current condition, these guides—specifically the Q Guide—need a major reconfiguration, and we can only hope that the shift to an online version will be a catalyst for the necessary improvements. In order to ensure that the print version of the Q Guide will never be missed, the new online version should reinvent the previous guide. First, the rating rubric, which is currently limited...
...give an estimate for what percentage of Tianyu's collection could be fakes, but says he and his staff have started to label - but not remove - those that have proven not to be the real deal. To cope with the drastically shrinking market, Zheng says the museum will gradually shift its focus to scientific research, cooperating with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to study dinosaurs and early birds. After all, Zheng says, it was never about the money. "I don't care for Mercedes," he says when asked why he drives a battered VW Santana 2000. "If I ever...
...Third Man. There's a little more plot and a lot more sensational driving, all in aid of reconciling Toretto and O'Conner. Given the Elmer's Glue of male-bonding movies, no girls will be allowed to drive; F&F is machismo with a stick shift. The guys are all members of a stud fraternity, a penile colony. The only eroticism is auto...