Word: capes
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...LAUNCHED. Discovery, American space shuttle, in the 115th mission for the ill-fated NASA shuttle program and the second since the 2003 destruction of the shuttle Columbia; carrying supplies and personnel to the International Space Station; at Cape Canaveral. The shuttle, the launch of which was twice delayed due to weather and safety concerns, will also test new inspection techniques to prevent a repeat of the Columbia disaster, in which seven astronauts were killed when their craft burned up on re-entry...
...much abused term, but destroying a test missile as it is being readied for launch qualifies for this category because only one U.S. cruise missile or precision bomb with an ordinary high-explosive warhead could easily puncture and ignite the multistory test booster. As with space-shuttle launches from Cape Canaveral, all personnel would normally be a safe distance away from the rocket at the time, so there should be no collateral damage...
...longer think Bush's technique is just a boomer thing. I think it's a Roosevelt thing - and I don't mean the Democrats' Roosevelt, the one who used a cigarette holder and wore a cape, I mean the Republicans' Roosevelt, the one who wore buckskin and shot bears...
...military and national-security experience"?as was the case with the current President, George W. Bush?he understands the problems facing everyday Americans. It's refreshing to hear someone like Obama speak from the heart and actually mean what he says. Elect Barack Obama in 2008! Ralph Reagan West Cape May, New Jersey...
...lesson that most impressed itself on Roosevelt was that it had taken the Oregon, steaming at high speed, a full 67 days to complete the 14,700-mile journey around Cape Horn. American navalists and expansionists--and Roosevelt was both--began clamoring for the construction of a canal across Central America, one that, given the turbulent nature of international politics, must be completely under U.S. control. Facing large potential threats in the Atlantic and the Pacific, the U.S. had no choice but to shorten the route between the East and West coasts...