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...other words, in Pentagon thinking, the threat of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles is not great enough to displace any of the existing spending priorities directed towards defending America. That's not to say missiles are no danger - far from it. The major danger to American lives in many plausible combat situations in the near term comes from short and intermediate range ballistic missiles. And there's no question that tactical- and theater missile defense systems are a top priority for the Pentagon. But it is not a tactical and theater missile threat that has formed the focus of National Missile Defense...
...plane safely down, touched a tear from his eye as he walked off the plane and into a heroic cacophony of cheers and music. But he was all smiles as he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend Roxanne Faustino and spun her around in a gesture as old as combat itself...
...plane safely down, touched a tear from his eye as he walked off the plane and into a heroic cacophony of cheers and music. But he was all smiles as he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend Roxanne Faustino and spun her around in a gesture as old as combat itself...
...gonna get another e-mail from him over this), a blockmate went to Amazon.com and found that not only does he have a sketchy resume (sample titles include: Dixie’s Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, the Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Last Suppers: If the World Ended Tomorrow, What Would Be Your Last Meal? and Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Backstage), but the reviews of his past work were less than glowing (i.e. “Throughout the book, Dickerson’s judgment is questionable...
...Either way, there are many people for whom the drugs are far too expensive because pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to lower their profit margins. The sad fact is that though Galeano is continually pointing out the obvious, it needs to be pointed out. Drugs to combat AIDS are not the only ones that are artificially expensive: marijuana, cocaine and heroin are also costly. Galeano quotes a former head of the New York City police narcotics squad: “If imported cocaine were to disappear, in two months it would be replaced by synthetic drugs.” Galeano persuasively...