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...that this disaster was being harnessed to push through a radical vision of totally unrestricted markets. And Bush didn't make too much of a secret of it when he announced that his idea of reconstructing the Gulf Coast was to turn it into a tax-free, free-enterprise zone...
...Yale an excellent fundamental team or has it just played lackluster opponents? The Bulldogs have zero turnovers through two games, they’re playing superbly on both sides of the ball in the red zone, and their special teams have been outstanding. Yale, according to at least one disreputable website, is a 2.5-point underdog in this game, so the bookies may think the latter...
...always been the appeal of the Square,” says Gifford. “We’re losing sort of a funkiness.” Nevertheless, for Gifford the sanitization is a not an unwelcome change. “We were sort of like a mini combat zone in the 80s,” she says. “There was a proliferation of bars, late-night drunks. Store windows were being broken, cars were being vandalized…it was just a nightmare.”Rising rents slowly weeded out the less profitable. Today, eating...
...survivable belly-flop landing. Its huge, 19-ft.-long (5.7 m) rotors are designed to rip into shreds rather than break apart and tear into the fuselage. But all bets are off if a V-22 is flying like a helicopter, heading in or out of a landing zone, and its engines are disabled by enemy fire or mechanical malfunction...
...speed will help it elude threats. It could, for example, zip into harm's way at more than 200 m.p.h. (320 km/h), convert to helicopter mode and then land within seconds. It could pause on the ground to deliver or pick up Marines and then hustle from the landing zone. Various missile-warning systems and fire-extinguishing gear bolster its survivability. If it is hit, redundant hydraulic and flight-control systems will help keep it airborne. Finally, Marines say, if the V-22 does crash, its crumpling fuselage and collapsing seats will help cushion those on board...