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...This news was grist for the mills of the B612 Foundation (named after the fictional asteroid home of "The Little Prince," in Saint-Exupery's novel). The astronomers and scientists who founded B612 did so to alert Congress and the public to the menace of an asteroid strike and to lobby for a demonstration mission by 2015 that could show the feasibility of a controlled deflection of an object threatening to strike the Earth...
...Astronomers figured that there was a one in 50 chance that MN4 would actually strike the Earth. Such an impact by an asteroid estimated to be as large as 1300 feet across could devastate a large region and perhaps, depending on where it hit, cause millions of casualties and untold billions in property damage...
While the threat of some weapon being deployed is always present, there are enough safeguards in most countries to make a preemptive strike highly unlikely. However, there are some countries—like North Korea and Iran—which evade watchdogs like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The only way this may change is with global pressure, which cannot build when the threat of nuclear weapons is so far from the minds of the general public...
...dunes, the twin smokestacks of the Ashkelon power plant blink their red warning lights. These, too, are within easy range of the rockets of Hamas once Israel takes its troops out of northern Gaza, as are the massive circular fuel tanks around its perimeter, and Israeli officials fear a strike against the plant could cripple Israel's electricity grid. It abuts the city of Ashkelon, which has grown to a mpopulation of 120,000 as new immigrants from Russia flooded into its bright white apartment blocks during the last decade. "That," says Miri Eisen, a former Israeli army colonel...
...hijacking at sea. David Thomson, the film historian and occasional novelist, edited the manuscript and supplies (from Cammell's notes) a last chapter, in which Annie finally beds a piratical dragon lady after whom he has long lusted. Their encounter, which involves foreign objects and upturned bums, may strike some readers as less than delectable. And only borderline rompish...