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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Geese in the Engines? Windscreen Filled with Birds
The more one reads about US Airways Flight 1549 — crippled by what might have been flying geese — and then being landed in the Hudson River by a clear-thinking pilot, the more incredible it all seems.
First officer Jeffrey B. Skiles was flying the airplane when the birds hit. Skiles "commented on the formation, […]
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
North Korea Goes Weapons-Ready Nuclear
This can't be good.
BEIJING, China (CNN) — Senior North Korean officials say the communist regime has "weaponized" its stockpile of plutonium, according to a U.S. scholar, in a move suggesting that North Korea may have significantly hardened its stance on nuclear negotiations.
Selig Harrison, one of the few U.S. scholars granted access to senior North […]