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...first Bush Administration, Rice was close to National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, and she has parlayed that into even closer ties with Dubya. She filled the empty vessel of the candidate's foreign policy during the campaign and now spends occasional weekends with him and his family at Camp David. She complements Colin Powell, but it's clear who is steering the ship. Her extra time with Bush, she says, "gives us a chance to step back...and talk more about our broader objectives...
MOST LIKELY TO BURST A VESSEL HyperSonic XLC, Kings Dominion, Va. A pneumatic launcher blasts riders 0-80 m.p.h. in 1.8 sec. and shoots them over a 165-ft. vertical tower with G-forces that even astronauts don't endure...
...year after the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk mysteriously exploded and sank with 118 sailors aboard, an international team is trying to raise the vessel--or most of it--to the surface. This week salvagers are scheduled to begin the dangerous process of slicing off the heavily damaged torpedo compartment, which would be left on the sea floor along with the answers it may contain...
...Kursk is 377 ft. below the surface. Salvagers have calculated that the submerged vessel weighs more than 21 million lbs. The water temperature hovers just above freezing. While the salvage concept is simple--attach some cables and pull up the sub--the challenges are formidable...
These findings have given doctors a new and very different model of heart disease. Inflammation and cholesterol combine, they now believe, to create a particularly unstable type of plaque that builds within blood-vessel walls. It's the rupture of these plaques, spewing debris into heart arteries, that causes clots to form and leads to heart attacks...