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...sailed 15,000 miles around the tip of South America (it was too big to use the Panama Canal), arriving in Pearl Harbor in January 2006. Its ultimate destination is the more challenging waters of Adak, a farflung outpost in Alaska's Aleutian island chain, famous for terrible weather and 100-foot waves. The MDA claims the SBX is powerful enough to spot a flying baseball in San Francisco from New York, and more importantly, to tell the difference between a real missile heading for America and a decoy...
...Clinton Administration. "It's like you've hired a contractor to build a kitchen, and they've forgotten to build a stove that doesn't catch on fire." Still, the SBX has, in fact, spent about a month in Alaskan waters to test its ruggedness in rough weather, from which it emerged unscathed...
...they have a very direct, personal relationship with the farm. It’s great that there’s a corporate trend towards organics because anything that poisons the earth less, that’s a good thing. As far as building a relationship to the earth, the weather, and the land and the farmer, that’s not going to happen with Whole Foods...
...India's Meteorological Department says it can't link the floods directly to global warming but the number of "extreme rainfall events" is definitely on the rise - a fact confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which reported that 2007 has been marked by extreme weather not just in South Asia but worldwide. Examples: South Africa and parts of South America have experienced freak snowfalls in recent months, while heat waves across Russia and Southern Europe set new high-temperature records in some cities; the U.K. and Germany were hit by spells of torrential rain exceeding any in more than...
Lyndon Johnson was obsessed with his own mortality. "He was always a little bit scared of death," Graham said, and thus wanted a preacher handy--like the time he talked Graham into flying to a convention with him because the weather was so bad, he thought the plane might crash. Having entered office in the shadow of the Kennedy assassination, Johnson was conscious of how a President's death can shatter a country. Long before his Administration collapsed and he announced that he would not seek a second term in 1968, Johnson privately told Graham what he was thinking...