Word: scuds
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...only we knew what they were going to do next. Because it doesn't always come up roses. James Watt's steam engine generated an Industrial Revolution that gave us a democracy of possessions--and over-population, acid rain, the Love Canal, disappearing forests, tattered ozone layers and Scud missiles. Medical miracles lengthen our lives and take national welfare provision to the edge of crisis. Electronic globalization moves jobs elsewhere...
...million, to strengthen Israel's northern border in the wake of its withdrawal from Lebanon. "It's more analogous to the Patriot than anything else," explains Thompson, referring to the interceptor missile system deployed in Israel and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War to defend against Iraq's SCUD missiles. But that system had a verifiable kill rate of only 25 percent of incoming missiles, according to a General Accounting Office study, and the new weapon faces a more complex challenge. "The Patriot system was cued by satellites whenever a SCUD was fired, giving it a minute...