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...cockpit, without needing any special attention from captain or crew. Underneath it all is a 13,000-lb. winged keel, which can be moved by hydraulic power from a vertical down position to as much as a 25 degrees slant to either side. That and a two-ton water-ballast system greatly improve the vessel's stability...
...victims does not send a message that society considers such acts despicable; indeed, it almost seems as if the government is making a deal with the convict: "You do the time, and if you write a book in prison, it's fine with us if you make a ton of cash to spend when...
THERE'S FOP, HOP and HOC; HUB, FUP and CLUH. Harvard has a ton of organizations--and it's hard to keep them all straight. Despite the large number, though, most of them are doing some cool things...
...suit and loafers, Kennedy pulls a Walther PPK from his ankle holster and gamely wades in, immediately losing a shoe to the muck. Reinforcements soon join him, and the search goes on for hours. Though the pilot manages to evade them, Kennedy and his colleagues seize nearly a ton of cocaine from the abandoned plane...
...Bush cannot appear to be indifferent to the plight of innocent Iraqi citizens. Washington officials believe, with good cause, that Saddam has ample food to feed his people. Since March 22, the Security Council's sanctions committee has received notice of exporters' intentions to ship more than 2 million tons of food to Iraq -- nearly one ton for every nine Iraqis. In addition, Baghdad has been permitted to import generators, medical supplies, water pumps and water-treatment systems...