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...nicknamed "Seek and Destroy," had to get within striking range, past Iraqi air defenses that remained potent. F-16 fighter jets and an EA-6B jamming plane made sure that no Iraqi missiles would get a good shot at the Baghdad-bound B-1. The crew never saw their target; the cloud cover below stretched for miles. But satellites were the real eyes of the mission. For this strike, U.S. Central Command called for two 2,000-lb. smart bombs known as JDAMs, then doubled the order. A JDAM, once loaded with coordinates, is guided to its kill by global...
...tense silence falls over the room. Three hundred people sit motionless, eyes down, concentrating on the cards in front of them. Their felt-tipped pens hover over the numbers, ink cobras ready to strike. The air is thick with anticipation, or at least cigarette smoke. Then the man up onstage begins his ritual call: "One and two, 12. All the sixes, 66 ?" Suddenly, the place is alive with movement - hands zipping back and forth, dabbing at the cards with sniper-like precision. Everyone racing to be the first to fill a row, two rows or a full house. Racing...
...Harvard right the ship? Play like the did yesterday. And the burden may lie with the newbies. The infield must be more sure-handed. The starters must keep their fastballs down in the strike zone. The bottom of the order must be more consistent offensively...
...Some of the reasons for not being concerned don’t strike me as reasons not to be concerned,” she said, remarking that the possibility for future restriction in the future concern...
Morgalis went 6.2 innings and gave up seven hits, but wound up tagged for four runs, three of which were unearned. When Morgalis wasn’t trying to get a bead on what seemed to be a very narrow strike zone, the players behind him were having their own difficulties. Farkes misplayed a liner off the bat of DH Will Venable that gave Princeton second and third with one out in the fourth...