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...shootdown itself was impressive. A basketball-size beam traveling 670 million m.p.h. (1,078 km/h) - the speed of light - blazed from the 747's nose. The beam focused on the missile and - like a kid torturing an ant with a magnifying glass - incinerated it. It fit the criterion enunciated in 2008 by Boeing's laser chief Mike Rinn: "There's nothing like flaming wreckage" to prove such lasers are not science fiction. (See the obstacles in the way of the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...subordinate to the principal use” of the residential property and “customarily incidental to the principal use.” While the Board agreed last night that the first stipulation had been met, it spent the majority of the hearing debating whether the second criterion had been satisfied...
...settling, and so it's used ironically in the title. I do not advocate settling for somebody that you don't have passion and connection with. I'm saying he may be shorter than you imagined, he may be skinnier than you imagined, he may not meet every criterion on your checklist. That's what a lot of women consider settling. There was a study done that asked, If a guy had 80% of what you are looking for, would you marry him? And most women said no. A guy is a package deal, as are you. Many women throw...
...CRITERION Located in Angel Islington - an area of north London full of antique shops, boutiques, cafés and pubs - Criterion offers an extraordinary miscellany of furniture, jewelry and objets d'art. Fancy an amusing bronze pig or giant jade bowl? This is where you might find it. The small crowd of buyers is welcome to sit on the furniture for sale - which ranges in style from Biedermeier to Swedish Modern - and there's a cozy ambience. Kick back on an Art Deco settee and enjoy the auctioneer's banter: "Now here's a tiger-fabric chaise longue. Remember Eartha...
...ineffective vaccines appeared to work together. Another mystery was that the people who became infected with HIV developed roughly the same amount of virus in their blood whether they got the vaccine or the placebo. Typically a protective vaccine would lower a patient's so-called viral load, a criterion that physicians use as the main indicator of HIV infection. The outcome of the trial of RV144 suggests that scientists do not fully understand what constitutes a successful immune response to the AIDS virus...