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Five minutes into its launch, the California rocket will release its mock warhead. The accompanying balloon will quickly inflate to its 6-ft.-plus diameter. Traveling less than a mile away from the mock warhead, the balloon is supposed to lure the interceptor away from its intended target. The warhead and the balloon, along with the container in which they rode into space, will reach a top speed of 14,700 m.p.h. and a peak altitude nearly 1,000 miles above the earth...
...Less than three minutes after leaving Kwajalein, the interceptor--having discarded its boosters--will be flying solo. Zipping across the heavens at 4,900 m.p.h., it will be about 1,500 miles from its target. Over the next six to eight minutes, the interceptor will try to hunt down its prey and guide itself into a suicidal collision with the warhead. It will be receiving guidance from far below as early-warning radar systems detect the incoming warhead. These systems hand off data to a so-called X-band radar system based on Kwajalein, which stabs the sky with...
...positioned for the information age: it allows large organizations to keep track of personnel, clients and inventory. Oracle has also bet heavily on the Internet, arguably putting the company in a better position than Microsoft for an era in which more computing will be done on the Internet and less on Windows-style operating systems. Wall Street clearly likes what Ellison is selling: while Microsoft stock has nosedived, Oracle stock has increased sixfold in the past year...
...story of Tennessee's success in one area--62% of its welfare recipients have moved into jobs--is also the story of its struggle in another. It is a story of day-care warehouses' stockpiling kids and sucking in rich government subsidies while paying barely trained caregivers less than $12,000 a year. It's a story of thousands of meals for poor kids paid for by the government but never provided; a story of prominent politicians and church leaders with ties to the day-care industry repeatedly ignoring the headlines; a story of children dying in overheated vans...
...moved into what had been a car dealership in East Memphis to accommodate its growing size. The new location was close to the home of Adrian and Tomeka Williams, who were looking for day care for two-year-old Adrian Jr. and four-month-old Destiny. On June 25, less than a week after the center opened, the van driver unloaded the other kids for the day but left Destiny in the van. She was discovered 5 1/2 hours later, still strapped into her child seat. The temperature inside the van had reached 112[degrees]; Destiny died of massive swelling...