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...Nuclear Countdown...
...called out to [the troops] not to come any closer so we can talk," Reinado says. "They don't stop. So I give them a countdown or I shoot. They keep coming, so I shoot." Outnumbered and outgunned, he and eight of his men fought for nine hours before managing to withdraw into the steep hills, beyond the reach of government forces. One man was badly wounded, and died on the way back to Aileu...
...tense moment arrived. In the B-52, Pilot Charles C. Bock checked his air speed (450 knots), asked Scott Crossfield on the intercom if he was set. The reply: "I'm ready when you are, buddy." Bock went through a five-second countdown, then punched a red button on his control panel. With a metallic click a locking device opened, and the X-15 dropped silently on a long, fast, powerless glide toward the desert floor...
...Andreas and its subsidiary faults, to amass new clues to its murky prehistory and to re-create in cyberspace the primordial violence of the 1906 quake. In addition to being the centennial of the last Big One, April 18, 2006, marks the approximate midway point in the countdown to the next Big One--100 years of stress accumulation in one of the world's most earthquake-prone regions. The more scientists learn about the ways in which that stress may be released, the more ominous the next earthquake cycle seems...
...Sunni parties, as well as the smaller secular alliance for his demand, but it was flatly rejected across the board by Shi'ite politicians. His subsequent attempt to force the Shi'ites' hand by calling the legislature into session this coming Sunday - which would have begun a 60-day countdown to decide on the next prime minister and his cabinet - was also blocked. In this case it was the Shi'ite politician most likely to replace Jaafari as the nominee, Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi, who put Shi'ite unity above his own partisan interests. On Tuesday, Jaafari refused...