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Today it does, and the SOG's capacities are growing. Its maritime branch has speedboats to carry commandos to shore, and the agency can rent cargo ships through its front companies to transport larger equipment. The air arm, which Pentagon officials have nicknamed the Waffen CIA, has small passenger jets on alert to fly paramilitary operatives anywhere in the world on two hours' notice. Other cargo planes, reminiscent of the Air America fleet that the agency had in Vietnam, can drop supplies to replenish teams in remote locations. For areas like Afghanistan and Central Asia, where a Russian-made helicopter...
McMurdo Station is the sprawling complex of buildings from which the National Science Foundation (NSF) runs the U.S. Antarctic program, and right now McMurdo has a problem. Those big bergs that are hanging around the neighborhood have pinned up to 40 miles of sea ice next to shore, creating a daunting obstacle course for a nearby colony of Adelie penguins and a serious navigational hazard for people who service the station. The penguins are having trouble getting out to sea to feed--so much trouble that their numbers are in precipitous decline--and the NSF's supply ships are having...
...taller than my thigh, the boy with coal-dark eyes swings himself easily onto my white horse. Feet dangling high above the stirrups, he gallops along the shore of a frozen lake, turns, rears and dismounts with a grace that brings to mind his distant ancestors--the Mongol warriors who swept across Asia...
...government should spend less on showpiece projects, be more serious about tackling a burgeoning deficit, and focus on preserving a free market. Instead, its most substantive response to the economic crisis has been to try and shore up property prices by a series of land sale freezes, curbs on building of public housing and increasing the supply of mortgage credit. The main beneficiaries of these policies have been the big property developers-the people closest to Tung. Meanwhile, the government is thinking of reducing its public spending by slashing the education and welfare budgets and imposing a levy on foreign...
...both his arms in its jaws and was dragging him into deep water when Chawinga decided to put up a fight. Make that a bite. He sank his teeth into the croc's nose, forcing the creature to spit him out in pain. Incredibly, Chawinga managed to swim to shore and safety...