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Israeli army withdraws after Gaza raid kills seven
GAZA CITY AFP — Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the army said, after a raid that left seven people dead, including a 10-year-old boy. Palestinian medics said the toll from the operation rose to seven overnight when a militant from the armed wing of the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Israel, SECURITY, tank
Research articles 2008-04-11
Israeli army withdraws after deadly Gaza raid
GAZA CITY AFP — Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the army said, after a raid that left six people dead, including a 10-year-old boy. Palestinians reported seeing several Israeli tanks rolling out of the territory before dawn, and the army confirmed that the operation had...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, SECURITY, tank
Research articles 2008-04-11
Gaza boy killed by Israeli tank fire
GAZA CITY AFP — A Palestinian boy was shot dead by Israeli tank fire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medical sources said. One person was also wounded in the same incident between the border with Israel and the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, the sources...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Israel, SECURITY, tanK
Research articles 2008-04-06
Engineers troubleshoot engine cutoff sensor woes
Open circuits in the Shuttle Atlantis external tank's external electrical feed through a connector caused of false readings in the Engine Cutoff ECO sensor system, which led to the December launch delays of the European-built Columbus space laboratory. Prior to the 7 February lift off, NASA formed a combined troubleshooting...
Tags: hydrogen, NASA, sensor, tank
Research articles 2008-04-01
Bulgaria's WWII tanks to go under hammer
SOFIA AFP — Bulgaria is to auction off World War II Panzer tanks thought to be worth millions of dollars, the country's defence ministry said Thursday. "People from all over the world, from America to Jordan, have declared an interest in these rare German tanks," the deputy director of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bulgaria, ministry, museum, tanK
Research articles 2008-03-13
Mounted vertical maneuver—today; when we need it: use existing U.S. Army M113 Gavin light tanks
Mike Sparks, Air-Mech-Strike Study Group--In reading BG Retired Robin P. Swan and LTC Retired Scott R. McMichael's pro article, "Mounted Vertical Maneuver: A Giant Leap Forward in Maneuver and Sustainment," and LTC Retired John Gordon IV and COL Retired David E. Johnson's anti-article, "Air Mechanization: An Expensive and Fragile Concept"...
Tags: MARKETING, parachute, Stryker Corp., tanK, U.S. Army
Research articles 2008-03-01
Israel operation kills six Gaza militants
GAZA CITY AFP — Six Palestinian fighters were killed in Israel's largest operation for months against the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the eve of the first Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations since a US summit. Dual-pronged raids, backed by warplanes in the north and south of the Hamas-run territory, which encountered...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Government, Israel, spokesman, tank
Research articles 2007-12-11
Israel operation kills six Gaza militants
GAZA CITY AFP — Six Palestinian fighters were killed in Israel's largest operation for months against the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the eve of the first Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations since a US summit. Dual-pronged raids, backed by warplanes in the north and south of the Hamas-run territory, which encountered...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Government, Israel, spokesman, tank
Research articles 2007-12-11
Cracks found on tanks of shuttles
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA says cracks have been found in the insulation of all three space shuttle fuel tanks slated to fly in coming months and could be the reason a chunk of foam debris broke off during Endeavour's launch. The debris gashed the belly of the...
Tags: bracket, crack, insulation, NASA, tanK
Research articles 2007-08-26
Shuttle's problem won't be fixed soon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Even as the wounded space shuttle Endeavour brought its seven astronauts home safely Tuesday, NASA is looking ahead to three more launches at risk for the same kind of damage. There is a striking parallel with the 2003 Columbia disaster in the space...
Tags: bracket, Columbia, NASA, Shuttle, tank
Research articles 2007-08-22
Shuttle's problem won't be fixed soon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Even as the wounded space shuttle Endeavour brought its seven astronauts home safely Tuesday, NASA is looking ahead to three more launches at risk for the same kind of damage. There is a striking parallel with the 2003 Columbia disaster in the space...
Tags: bracket, Columbia, NASA, Shuttle, tank
Research articles 2007-08-22
Space shuttle's problem won't be repaired just yet
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Even as the wounded space shuttle Endeavour brought its seven astronauts home safely Tuesday, NASA is looking ahead to three more launches at risk for the same kind of damage. There is a striking parallel with the 2003 Columbia disaster in the space...
Tags: bracket, Columbia, NASA, tank
Research articles 2007-08-22
Shuttle's problem won't be fixed soon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Even as the wounded space shuttle Endeavour brought its seven astronauts home safely Tuesday, NASA is looking ahead to three more launches at risk for the same kind of damage. There is a striking parallel with the 2003 Columbia disaster in the space...
Tags: bracket, Columbia, foam, NASA, Shuttle, tank
Research articles 2007-08-22
Teacher-astronaut hunts for damage
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Schoolteacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan helped operate a 100-foot robot arm and extension boom in a hunt for damage on her first full day in orbit Thursday, as NASA said foam insulation may have hit the space shuttle at launch. Nine pieces of foam insulation broke...
Tags: Columbia, Morgan, NASA, Robots, shuttle, tank
Research articles 2007-08-10
Tanks for nothing 'Embarrassed' Bears sever ties with Johnson.(Sports)
Byline: Bob LeGere rlegere@@dailyherald.com This time the Bears aren't giving another chance to con them into believing he's sincere about changing his wayward lifestyle. Johnson was cut Monday, three days after he he was detained by police in Gilberts,...
Tags: Games, Johnson, NFL, suspension, Tank
Research articles 2007-06-26
NASA launches 1st shuttle flight of year
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal that included a damaging hailstorm and a lurid love triangle. Its big orange fuel...
Tags: ascent, Atlantis, NASA, tank
Research articles 2007-06-09
NASA enters last day of launch countdown
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After a three-month delay, NASA entered the final day of a launch countdown for space shuttle Atlantis Thursday with no major technical problems looming and a forecast for promising weather. Forecasters predicted an 80 percent chance that the weather would allow NASA to...
Tags: NASA, tank
Research articles 2007-06-08
Shuttle returns to launch pad after more than 2 months of repairing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After 2 1/2 months of repairs to its external fuel tank, space shuttle Atlantis returned to the launch pad Tuesday in anticipation of an early June liftoff to the international space station. The 3.4-mile, early-morning trip aboard the massive crawler- transporter took under seven...
Tags: NASA, Shuttle, shuttle, tank
Research articles 2007-05-15
Woodruff: Had an out-of-body experience
Seconds after the roadside bomb that tore off part of his skull, Bob Woodruff said he had a brief out-of-body experience before losing consciousness for more than a month. The former ABC anchor answered questions publicly yesterday for the first time since the roadside bomb nearly killed him in...
Tags: ABC Inc., Iraq, tank
Research articles 2007-02-27
Hail damages space shuttle tank; NASA evaluating whether to delay
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A hail storm left hundreds of divots on space shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank, and NASA managers weren't sure Tuesday if the damage was severe enough to postpone next month's launch. The storm Monday evening passed over the launch pad where Atlantis was being...
Tags: Atlantis, NASA, tanK
Research articles 2007-02-27