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...most of the wreckage appeared to be in the surrounding neighborhoods and business districts. On one block, part of a house had crashed down on a truck. On another, the trees on either side had collapsed into the middle, creating an impassible stretch. Power cables dangled and stretched across streets like clotheslines. A local bar owned by the brother of Springfield's mayor was turned into a convertible, its roof swept away, but beer signs still hung on walls that remained standing-a telling sign of nature's seeming illogic...
...Hamas, hence hastening the downfall of Haniya's government. So far, Israel has been careful to distinguish who is shooting before it fires back. Since the election, no Hamas targets have been attacked, but last week an Israeli missile killed two Islamic Jihad militants riding in an ice cream truck in Gaza, along with three bystanders, including a child and a teenager. Says Col. Yohanan Tzoreff, a senior researcher at the Institute for Counter Terrorism near Tel Aviv, "If Fatah continues its terrorist attacks against us, we know that it isn't trying to destroy Israel but to destroy...
...thing that has made the shuttles such lethal disappointments is that they have tried to do too many things--fly like a spacecraft, land like an airplane, haul cargo like a truck. Part of the reason the Apollo ships succeeded was that they had an exceedingly clear goal: to fly to the moon and strictly obey the laws of simplicity and safety on the way. Both ships were also wisely mounted at the top of the booster that lifted them off the ground--keeping them away from the fire and foam that killed Challenger and Columbia...
...cooperate. After midnight, the gang took Dixon to a depot in nearby Tonbridge, run by Securitas, a company that handles about 40% of the cash deposits made in the U.K. Once inside, the gang tied up 14 staff members and started to load the loot into a white truck. It's a racing certainty they didn't know what they'd got. With big robberies, that's more common than you might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists - notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport in 1983, when thieves took gold worth $45 million...
...forced to cooperate. After midnight, the gang took Dixon to a depot in nearby Tonbridge, run by Securitas, a company that handles about 40% of the cash deposits made in Britain. Once inside, the gang tied up 14 staff members and started to load the loot into a white truck...