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...space station and "establish a base on the moon," the head of the lunar expedition program, Ouyang Ziyuan, has told state-run media. Ultimately, he even hopes China can colonize other planets, although he expects it will take "some 200 years to reconstruct Mars to make it suitable to sustain human life." This is China's Great Leap Skyward. As an emergent Middle Kingdom increasingly struts its stuff on the international stage, Beijing wants to back up its claim to the mandate of heaven by going there. Of late, China has shown its global power by nudging North Korea into...
...Ronald Reagan inherited a U.S. military that had been decimated by the vast cuts under the Carter Administration. America would not have been able to sustain the military operations we now support without Reagan's rebuilding efforts. The largest military pay raise in history was signed by him. He believed in a strong America and backed that doing what needed to be done to make us safe. Bin-Laden would not have come at us with Reagan in office. Msgt. Ron Axley Indianapolis...
...pledged to relocate many of Hilles’ library employees, the books may face a more ominous fate. A large portion of the estimated 208,000 volumes that currently reside within Hilles’ confines may be eliminated from the Harvard College Library (HCL) collection as the ability to sustain Hilles’ duplications—much of the collection is found elsewhere among HCL’s eleven libraries—proves too great a budgetary burden...
...Maximum number of active-duty troops the U.S. can sustain in Iraq after next March, if the Pentagon sticks to its one-year rotation plan, according to a Congressional Budget Office report...
...course of our deliberations over the budget, we came to the conclusion that we can’t sustain the level of duplication we have at Hilles,” said Nancy Cline, head of HCL. “Usage has dropped, and from a budget perspective, it makes sense to make room for other student activities there...