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Neither Bibigate nor the self-satisfied smirk nor the American manner prevented Israelis from going for the whole package, not just the polish but the steel underneath. If the younger, tougher, smoother candidate raced to the top almost before his resume built up to it, the slimmest of majorities was persuaded that his youthful energy and conservative caution hold the greater promise. Voters concluded that Bibi's there is there, and it belongs in the Prime Minister's office...
Growing up in a single-parent family in the gritty steel town of Norristown, Pa., he walked among the working poor and experienced the difficulties of inner-city life...
According to Pasquale, because of his frequent relocations, often prompted by downsizing and layoffs in the steel and oil equipment industries in which his father worked, his parents have imparted to him a sense of injustice and an "aggrieved attitude toward life...
Many people--including some astronomers--are understandably nervous about putting a standby squadron of nuclear-tipped missiles in place. Hence the latest strategy, which in some cases would obviate the need for a nuclear defense: propelling a fusillade of cannonball-size steel spheres at an approaching asteroid. In a high-velocity encounter with a speeding NEO, explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos, "the kinetic energy of the balls would change into heat energy and blow the thing apart...
...astronomer Steel dryly noted in an E-mail message sent to colleagues around the world, "It might be a useful point to make that this object was discovered only...days before closest approach, so that if it had been on a collision course with Earth, we would not have had time to do anything much about...