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...surface combat THE TARGET The house, made of cinder blocks and reinforced concrete, was set back in a grove of date palms, about 1.25 miles (2 km) northeast of the village of Hibhib First bomb GBU-12 A 500-lb. (227 kg) smart bomb that follows a laser signal to its target. An electronics pod under the aircraft or a spotter on the ground illuminates the target with a laser. A guidance system in the nose of the bomb detects that spot and controls the movements of the airfoils in the rear to steer the bomb toward the target...
...Swift Boat veterans, who eventually got the best of him. What was holding you back? LHS: Every group has had, can have, and will have great scientists, and I never wanted to do anything that suggested that I or Harvard thought anything else or wanted to send any different signal. Correcting that misimpression was much more important to me than “nuancing” or winning any kind of debate. I do hope that the University will be a place where any hypothesis can be put forward and vigorously debated on its merits...
...pair did not snag a win, they did garner 912 votes, exceeding Hadfield’s previously expressed goal of gaining 600 ballots. And they placed second, beating a team of UC veterans who had once been seen as serious contenders.While his achievements in campus politics might seem to signal a potential presidential run this fall, Hadfield says he does not have designs on the UC’s top job. “I promised my girlfriend that I wouldn’t,” says Hadfield, who is dating a Dartmouth University graduate student in creative writing...
Researchers realized decades ago that high blood pressure is a cardiovascular danger signal. They don't understand the exact mechanism yet, but physicians think elevated pressure puts a strain on blood vessels, causing them to tear or develop weak areas where plaque can gain an easy foothold. Hypertension (to use the technical term) can also force small blood vessels to burst like an overstressed garden hose; if that happens in the brain, it's called a stroke--the other major cardiovascular killer besides heart attack...
Although The Crimson realized that the Geneva Conference did not signal a change Soviet aims, it was generally felt that personal pledges not to begin a third—and last—world war were important gains and that a continually creative approach in diplomacy indicated by the atoms-for-peace and “open skies” disarmament plan, was after all the best one. Thus, it urged that a realistic view of Soviet aims need not prevent the development of East-West contacts: Trade with Russia in non-strategic materials and the exchange of professors...