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California motorists get a break at the pumps
California ConsumerCalifornia's spot gasoline market shrugged off refinery fires in Wilmington and Martinez late last week to move lower today. Retail prices around the state also fell for the second straight week as analysts were predicting a drop to about $2.75...... -
Now, a Cheney surge: Blasts Obama for Afghan 'dithering,' delays and indecision
Top of the TicketFull text of ex-VP's shot back at Democratic White House over Afghan war policies.... -
Robert A. Fuhrman dies at 84; former Lockheed executive
Robert A. Fuhrman, a pioneering Lockheed engineer who played a central role in the creation of the Polaris and Poseidon missiles before rising to the top of the aeronautics and aerospace giant, died Saturday in Pebble Beach, Calif. He was 84.
Fuhrman,...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Obituaries, University of Michigan, Aerospace Manufacturing, Science and Technology
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Florence Foster dies at 68; whistle-blower shed light on falsified tests of cruise missiles
Florence Foster, an electronics technician who blew the whistle on a tiny Los Angeles-area outpost of Northrop Corp., which led to a massive criminal case involving the falsification of tests on cruise missiles, has died. She was 68.
Foster died July...Tags: Employees, Corporate Crime, Aerospace Manufacturing, Defense Equipment, Criminals
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Wayne E. Meyer dies at 83; retired Navy rear admiral
Retired Rear Adm. Wayne E. Meyer, who was known as the "Father of Aegis," the Navy's primary air-defense weapon system that revolutionized how the Navy performed air defense, has died. He was 83.
Meyer, who managed the development and early building of...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Obituaries, Science and Technology, Technology, Defense
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Iran, weapons, secrets and threats
Representatives of six major world powers and Iran will begin talks on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program when they meet Thursday. Here is a primer on the issues to be discussed.
Who will participate in the talks in Geneva?
The discussions will be...Tags: Entertainment, Geneva (Swiss Confederation), Twitter, Inc., Nicolas Sarkozy, United Nations
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Matt Weinstock, Feb. 2, 1960
The Daily MirrorMystery of Missiles One of the problems of those who guide our missile program is making it understandable to earth-bounders. In other words, translating complex scientific data into ordinary terms. Toward this end former newspaperman Chris Clausen, now... -
IRAN: Russia backtracks on S-300 missile systems for Tehran
Babylon & BeyondAfter a mysterious delay and a public challenge by Tehran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appeared to backtrack on Russia's pledge to supply S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, telling Moscow's official state news agency on Wednesday... -
Your Los Angeles: Do you believe in UFOs?
Brand X"Without a doubt, the weirdest L.A. experience I've had was the supposed UFO sighting in the late '90s. I was in Mar Vista at my friend's place when the sky seemed strange. We went outside when a kid on a bike came racing toward us yelling, "Do you see... -
Expand or scrap missile ban
Twenty years ago this December, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the only treaty in history that eliminated an entire class of weapons -- shorter- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles. The treaty commonly referred to as...Tags: Vladimir Putin, John F. Kennedy, U.S. Army, Syria, Condoleezza Rice
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Taking friendly fire to new heights
Last night, three Navy warships waited in the Pacific for orders to shoot down a crippled U.S. spy satellite, using weapons designed for missile defense. The Bush administration said the goal was to prevent the satellite's 1,000 gallons of toxic fuel from...Tags: Science and Technology, White House, Satellite Technology, Defense, China
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Chinese missile strikes satellite
Times Staff WriterThe Chinese military shot down one of its own aging satellites with a ground-based ballistic missile last week, demonstrating a new technological capability at a time of growing Bush administration concern over Beijing's military modernization and its...Tags: Wars and Interventions, John Johnson, Beijing (China), U.S. Department of State, Weaponry
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