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...Einstein of manned space flight," whose design of the Mercury space capsule made it possible for men to return from space; in Houston, Texas. Early needle-nosed spaceships were almost impossible to protect from the heat of reentry. Faget designed a blunt nose for the Mercury, which created a shock wave that deflected the heat...
...while the rest of the I-AA world marveled at the utter beating that Harvard unleashed upon one the best teams from the nation’s toughest conference, the Crimson packed up its pads and moved on, almost completely unwilling to accept responsibility for the national shock waves it had just sent through the nation...
...Bush campaign this time set about to rectify that with a plan they say will actually prove more effective than the better-financed Democratic operations. "It's a bit of a culture shock," says a Republican official of the sustained and face-to-face commitment they are asking of their volunteers. "Some are used to just writing a check, and that's it." Much of the organizing is being done through churches. The campaign stirred up some controversy earlier this year when it began asking its recruits to turn over their church directories. The Bush strategy, road tested in some...
...YEARS, SADDAM HUSSEIN SHOWED himself to be a master practitioner of the big bluff. Everyone outside Iraq and just about everyone inside believed that he harbored a secret stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. So imagine the shock his generals received in late 2002 when U.S. forces were massing on the country's borders for an imminent invasion, and Saddam suddenly informed them that Iraq had no biological or chemical or nuclear weapons at all. Longtime aide Tariq Aziz told U.S. interrogators that military morale plummeted the moment senior officers learned Iraq would have to fight the U.S. without those...
...Mercury space capsule made it possible for men to return from space; in Houston, Texas. Early needle-nosed spaceships, designed for as little resistance as possible, were almost impossible to protect from the heat of re-entry. Faget designed a blunt nose for the Mercury, which created a shock wave that deflected the heat, a design feature later used on the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, as well as the Soviet Soyuz...