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...Stanton said, looking forward to next weekend’s Heptagonal Championships, which marks the culmination of the indoor track and field season. The women didn’t race any distance runners, but did notch formidable dash and mid-distance runs. Despite having to restart twice, Junior Brittan Smith finished second in the 60 meter dash with a time of 7.84, while senior Lauren Walker and freshman Meredith MacGregor legged out second-place 2:18.87 and eighth-place 2:26.37 finishes, respectively. “Actually the girl I came second behind to is the fastest girl...
...point where I was leaving work early and literally changing from my CIA clothes to my kitchen clogs and running over to the restaurant kitchen or the bakery twice a week,” she says. “By the end of the time I could just open the convention oven and put the flat of my hand on the cake and I could just tell by the feel of it when it was done...
...Highlighting the huge request is a proposal by the Air Force to trump its civilian leaders and buy twice as many F-22 jets as now planned, while hyping the threats to justify the buy. China and India are, in the Air Force's eyes, the 21st century equivalent of the Soviet Union, requiring billions in new aircraft that even a hawkish Republican President doesn't think are needed. More critically, every dollar spent on supersonic aircraft is a dollar that isn't spent on the kind of troops and materiel needed to wage the two irregular wars the nation...
...military is hardly starving. The Pentagon's proposed 2009 Defense Budget is twice the size of the budget President Bush inherited from Bill Clinton. Even without the nearly $200 billion for the wars, the $515 billion tab is on par with the defense budgets of World War II. "Today, free-flowing funding has fundamentally undermined all budget discipline in the Pentagon," says Gordon Adams, who oversaw military spending from a senior post in the Clinton White House...
While partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, the moon’s orbital plane is not always perfectly aligned with the Earth?...