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...scene--tactics used to great effect by Hizballah in Lebanon against Israeli forces. Insurgent bombers constantly monitor and test the range of U.S. electronic jammers to try to detonate explosives outside the jammers' reach. The rebels are increasing payloads in car bombs to as much as 1,000 lbs. and armoring their vehicles so that soldiers at checkpoints can't stop them with small-arms fire. The enemy is, in the words of a recently returned Iraq veteran, disciplined, professional and constantly evolving...
...hatred of low-carb diets is somewhat surprising since in 1995 I managed to lose 25 lbs. in six weeks for a magazine article, in part as a result of a low-carb diet, and never put it back on. Plus, I met my wife because she saw my well-lit photos in that story. I'm not entirely sure what a diet would have to do to impress me, but I think it would involve some of that sweet, light-headed Trimspa giddiness that makes Anna Nicole Smith so crack happy...
Listed at 6’3 and 212 lbs. on the Crimson’s roster, the forward settled into a strong, physical role during his first two years. He ended last season on Harvard’s top line with big-name seniors Tom Cavanagh and Brendan Bernakevitch, and, due to the graduation of that pair and next year’s relatively small senior class, Maki will likely see more of the spotlight next season...
...dings on its underside, including one near the nose, where temperatures can climb dangerously high ?FOAM DEBRIS The biggest chunk was 2 to 3 ft. wide (0.6 to 0.9 m), about 1 ft. long (0.3 m) and up to 8 in. (20 cm) thick; it probably weighed 0.9 lbs. (0.4 kg), about half the size of the piece that downed Columbia ?THE TROUBLESOME RAMP Most of the falling bits came from the so-called PAL ramp, a ridge of hand-sprayed foam designed to protect fuel lines from buffeting on takeoff ?EXTERNAL FUEL TANK The tank...
...vibration during liftoff to prevent at least some foam from breaking off. What NASA engineers have done over the past two years is work to improve the contours, and the application of the foam, in the hope that no piece of foam that does break off exceeds .03 lbs., the weight at which the foam, at that acceleration, could begin to present the danger of serious damage. So what surprised NASA isn't that they lost a few bits of foam, but that one of the pieces that fell off was very big: Almost as big as the piece that...