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...What about the sleek B-2? Ironically, while the B-2 performed well, the success of older aircraft may make it harder for the services to bring costly new planes on line. In the coming decades, the Pentagon plans to spend $300 billion on three new classes of warplanes, including $62.2 billion for a fleet of 339 F-22 fighters. But if U.S. air forces are so good, the thinking goes, why upgrade...
Show biz keeps a hold on us with its near monopoly of beauty, spellbinding us with the power of pulchritude. Here are the faces and figures that have launched millions of fantasies: monuments of loveliness, the fleshy, sleek, skin-deep kind. We know they reflect only our desire, but we still dream they connect with our souls as well...
...oversimplification, but American Reform had long defined itself by its distance from what the skullcap represented. Its founders in 1824 were moved both by the Enlightenment idea that humans could better approach God through reason than through unquestioning faith and ceremony and by an urge to create a sleek American Judaism shorn of old-world adornments. They replaced much of the Hebrew liturgy with English. Their platform pledged allegiance to traditional Judaism's moral laws (avoiding the Hebrew word mitzvoth) but dismissed ritual observances such as rules for keeping kosher as "entirely foreign to our present mental and spiritual state...
...time, three Titan 4s--direct offspring of the reliable Titan 2--were launched, carrying satellites worth hundreds of millions of dollars. All three flopped spectacularly--one committing an explosive suicide 41 seconds after liftoff, the others misfiring and stranding their satellites in useless orbits. Three other rockets--Lockheed's sleek new Athena 2, and a pair of boosters from Boeing's new Delta 3 class--also conspicuously fizzled. Three of the six failures occurred in the past three weeks alone...
Facilities. The Malkin Athletic Center was equipped with some new Stairmasters, but the building still needs to be razed. Elsewhere, varsity athletic facilities got a sleek upgrade, Boylston Hall and the new language lab look great and the Barker Center is a winner. Even Loker Commons, though a disappointment, has its fans. Verdict: Better...