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...that people go to church for the explicit reason of worshiping God. Some people do believe in that stuff, you know. If Liu does not want to hear about God, that is his prerogative, but he should not come to Sunday church and then complain that God has been thrust upon him. --Noble Hansen
...reasons--training and equipment. It is the best-trained air force in the world, but that won't matter much if we end up flying against vastly superior aircraft. Today the average Air Force fighter is nearly 20 years old. Thirty-five years ago, vectored thrust and lasers were fantasies. Now they're realities for the U.S. and other countries. We can't just decide one day that this is the last fighter we'll ever need. DAVE KINCAID Captain, U.S.A.F. Abilene, Texas...
...circular motion could have been due to the fact that the plane only had about 90 seconds worth of fuel left. And since the plane has two engines, it's highly unlikely they both would have cut out simultaneously. In other words, one engine could have provided the thrust to force the plane in a circular direction." This scenario, combined with the fact that skiers near Vail heard a loud explosion at about the time the aircraft vanished from radar screens, makes the possibility that Captain Button stole the plane more remote. But the theory won't go away until...
...Wilmut's success is thrust upon all of us. Whether or not we approve of tampering with the fundamentals of life, there are people doing just that. Dolly triggers, perhaps irrationally, our fears that powerful ideas will make out future something we don't want it to be. Scientific discoveries have always done that, but this one comes with a sense of immediacy and at a time of growing concern that individual communities will be lost in a global economy...
Jiang finds himself thrust into the limelight in what already promises to be a watershed year in Chinese affairs. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will pay her maiden call at his office this week. Despite the official six-day period of mourning, Beijing quickly cabled Albright that they wished the meeting to go ahead. "They want to take her measure, and they want to show that it's business as usual," says a senior State Department official. Vice President Al Gore is expected in March. The national parliament opens its annual session that month, and the 15th Party Congress...