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...long-range bombers (the B- 1 and B-2 "Stealth"), not one but two ICBMs (the ten-warhead MX and the Midgetman), not one but two species of cruise missiles (air launched and sea launched), plus a submarine missile. The cost: nearly $100 billion over the next five years...
...Boeing 707 had been delayed fully 89 minutes in various holding patterns on its scheduled five-hour flight from Medellin, Colombia, to New York. Bad weather had stalled 248 other planes heading for Kennedy that day; in the two hours before the Avianca disaster, 33 pilots chose to land at other airports. The Avianca crew reported it did not have enough fuel to reach its designated alternate, Boston. Apparently because of high winds and low clouds, the plane missed its first landing attempt at Kennedy. It crashed on its second approach when all four engines failed, almost certainly for lack...
...matters worse, the Defense Department is committed to spending $124 billion in the next decade for hardware such as the Navy's pricey ($60 billion for the program) A-12 attack aircraft, and the LHX helicopter, a beleaguered program that threatens to gobble up $42 billion over the next five years. Most of this money is not even anticipated in the current budget. As such programs are scratched or stretched out, the Pentagon faces enormous cancellation fees to contractors. Some of these weapons have already consumed millions of dollars in research and development...
Miller's switches became the building blocks for Huang's optical processor, which took five years to develop. His team finished construction around Christmas but did not get the machine to work until last month. The device is far cruder than even the most basic computers: it has no permanent memory, and the only function it can perform is counting simple numbers. Just a small fraction of the thousands of switches are connected. Nonetheless, Huang insists, the machine proves that his principle works. He thinks computer makers will soon replace wiring inside their machines with optical circuits...
...their doors. Nearly 8,100 Americans, most of them elderly, are known to have died of flu and flu-related illnesses, and the figure is rising daily. The Centers for Disease Control has officially declared it an epidemic, the worst outbreak of flu in the U.S. in at least five years...