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chaussures moncler The world's first solar sail spacecraft crashed back to Earth when its booster rocket failed lower than two minutes after Tuesday's takeoff, Russian space officials said Wednesday.The Cosmos 1 vehicle, a joint U.S.-Russian project, was intended to show that a so-called solar sail can make a controlled flight. Solar sails, meant to be propelled by pressure from sunlight, are noticed as a potential means for achieving interstellar flight, allowing such spacecraft to gradually build up great velocity and cover large distances.However the Volna booster rocket failed 83 seconds after its launch from the Russian nuclear submarine inside the northern Barents Sea just before midnight Tuesday in Moscow, the Russian space agency said.Its spokesman, Vyacheslav Davidenko, declared that "the booster's failure means that the solar sail vehicle was lost." The Russian navy began looking for debris from the booster and the vehicle, he said.U.S. scientists said earlier that they possibly had detected signals from Cosmos 1 but cautioned that it could take hours or days to determine exactly where the $4 million spacecraft was.The signals were found late Tuesday after an all-day seek out the spacecraft, which had suddenly stopped communicating after its launch, the course notes said."It's good news because we are in orbit — most likely in orbit," Bruce Murray, a co-founder of The Planetary Society, which organized the mission, said prior to the Russian space agency's announcement. no previous page next 1/2
doudoune moncler enfant George W. Bush is spending more to win primary votes than any candidate ever. In the unprecedented $70 million he's raised, he's spent an incredible $50 million already, reports CBS News Correspondent Bill Whitaker. Republican rival John Mccain has spent about 50 % as much."We've got a plan available that's going to enable me to stay in the race for the long term," says Bush.That will put it in perspective, Bob Dole, the previous spending champ, forked out about $40 million for the primaries. Bush has spent $10 million more already and isn't yet through the second major primary test. And the costly, big state primaries California, New York, Texas - lie ahead."I feel that Governor Bush's place in the Guinness Book of Records is protected," says McCain. "We've never seen the level of spending like that in any other political campaign. In my opinion we can still win the battle of ideas, even though we're badly losing the battle with the bucks."Against this backdrop, a CBS News/ Ny Times poll out Wednesday suggests Bush includes a strong lead over McCain on the list of nation's Republican primary voters. But McCain contains the edge among those paying the most care about the campaign. Among Democrats, Al Gore could be pulling away from Bill Bradley.The Bush camp acknowledges that most of the money - about 30 % through last year has gone for TV ads. And with the ad blitz now going full force in South Carolina, and commercials already airing in upcoming primary states, that figure is rising. "We are putting in place a strategy for him to win the Republican nomination," says Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes. "A lots of these are expenditures that won't be replicated; they're investments in aiding Governor Bush earn the nomination as we arrive at states down the road."It seems the Bush strategy is to spend a huge amount of money in early stages to knock McCain out of the race, because not Bush can afford this kind of saturation TV campaign from the big states down the road. In the event it strategy doesn't work, they'll be running out of money and into big trouble.
doudoune enfant moncler Republican Gov. Christie Whitman launched her bid for your U.S. Senate Thursday, saying she would work for measures "empowering people and having government out of their lives." The second-term governor, long seen as GOP star, ended speculation about her political future. She announced the development of a fund-raising committee, kicking off an effort to become New Jersey's first elected Republican U.S. senator since 1970s. The seat is held by Democrat Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who has chosen to never run in the 2000 election. "A committee has been formed to raise money" for a Senate bid, Whitman said after a Statehouse news conference. She vowed to continue to focus on being governor until the coming year."I believe I can contribute a great deal for the state of New Jersey in the usa Senate," she said. "But Furthermore, i have the real understanding that this (governor job) is the foremost job I can have." Whitman is barred for legal reasons from seeking a third consecutive term as governor. Her current term runs through January 2002. In Washington, she said, she had be "outspoken on issues like taxes, smaller government, like empowering people and getting government out of their lives and knowning that every right answer is not in Washington, that it tends to be closer to the people." Prominent Republican political strategists Lewis Eisenberg and Candace Straight, two longtime supporters with the governor, said earlier Thursday that they can would head the fund-raising effort. "Christie Whitman is a huge great governor and will be an extraordinary U.S. senator," said Straight. Whitman, 52, is totally new Jersey's first woman governor. She would be the state's first woman U.S. senator if she won. Whitman ran to the U.S. Senate in 1990, her first statewide race. She nearly beat heavily financed Democratic incumbent Bill Bradley within a campaign that targeted Democratic Gov. Jim Florio's tax increases. Three years later, Whitman used that argument to defeat Florio. She gained national prominence on her behalf tax cuts, but then were required to survive a surprisingly close race for re-election in 1997, when Democrat Jim McGreevey targeted the state's high auto insurance rates and property taxes. A Whitman run could set up a rematch with Florio, who has set up an exploratory committee for the Democratic nomination for Senate. A Quinnipiac College poll released last week gave Whitman a comfortable lead in the "what-if" race against Florio. Lautenberg, 75, a three-term Democrat, announced in February that they would not seek re-election.
vest moncler homme Iran threatened on Friday to dam inspections of its nuclear sites in the event the U.N. Security Council confronts it over its nuclear activities.Germany, Britain and France said Thursday that nuclear talks with Iran had reached a dead end after more than a couple of years of acrimonious negotiations and the issue must be referred to the Security Council.However, the Europeans held away from calling on the 15-nation council to impose sanctions and said they remained ready to accept more talks.So did China."We require a solution but to refer it could complicate the issue," Us ambassador Wang Guangya said. "This is our concern."President Bush, after meeting Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, again pushed for that Security Council to take up the matter, although he stopped short of saying what kind of action should be taken, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller (audio).Both leaders caused it to be clear that it would be unacceptable if Iran would develop nuclear weapons "and the main reason it's unacceptable is because Iran furnished with a nuclear weapon poses a grave threat on the security of the world," Mr. Bush said."We are not intimidated by a country such as Iran," said Merkel.France said Friday it favors a step-by-step approach with Iran over its nuclear program and that any sanctions request at this stage would be premature."We, like our partners, such as the British and the Germans, take into account that this co-request for sanctions is premature at the moment," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei said.Iran said that if it were confronted by the council, it will be obliged to stop cooperating together with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.That would be, among other things, the end of random inspections, said Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki."In case Iran is described the U.N. Security Council ... the government will be obliged to end most of its voluntary cooperation," the tv quoted Mottaki as saying.Iran has been voluntarily allowing short-notice IAEA inspections since 2003. But this past year it adopted a law requiring the us government to block intrusive inspections of Iran's facilities when the IAEA refers the Iranian program on the council. no previous page next 1/2
doudounes moncler pas cher Weekly commentary by CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer. Basically wished you a merry Christmas, some would say, `Well, how improper. He's throwing his religion within my face.' But I hope That's not me, because to me the Christmas story is often a message of love and forgiveness. In my experience, that means tolerance and respect for others. These are wonderful thoughts but no more admirable than Judaism's emphasis on values or Islam's command to assist the poor, which to me are just different ways of saying the same thing.We have come to believe that all the great religions are basically true, all part of the same peace, a conclusion I neither ask nor expect one to share. If it matters for you, I am a believer but, like Kirkegaard, I am suspicious of all organized religion because all too often it professes to know the mind of God and who could understand that? To me, the greatest misunderstanding of religion is held by those who try to impose their beliefs on others and teach their young children they are somehow superior to those that do not believe as they believe, which will seem to miss the point of all religion.As opposed to arguing over the details, wouldn't many of us be better off to focus on the values that great religions share? We'll learn later who got the details right. The one sure thing I am aware about all this is that the Christmas story helps me. It reminds me that I am happier when I think of yourself as forgiving rather than revengeful, when I act as helpful instead of judgmental.So I do wish a merry Christmas, if you know why.By Bob SchiefferBy Bob Schieffer
moncler pour homme When it comes to guns in America, the theory is that there are enough for every adult to own at least one. But, as CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports, they do not, because as it turns out, most guns are actually owned by just a small group of american citizens, including men like James McCoskey.McCoskey owns near 100 firearms, but dont phone him constantly a collector. "I'm not really a collector. I assume you'd say I'm an accumulator and a user of guns."And like a lot of people who own multiple guns, he carries his passion to the voting booth. "I tell ya, it is possible to criticize people for maybe using a tendency to be single issue oriented. But this is one of those single issues," said McCoskey. Poll after poll has demonstrated that a majority of Americans favor tougher gun laws, nevertheless little has happened. One good reason for that, researchers believe, happens because for the shrinking number of Americans who do own guns, this is not only a big issue, it's the only issue.In fact, a recent study found the number of gun owners in the usa has never been more concentrated as opposed to now among a small number of white, middle-class rural men. "We see that about 10 percent of the adults in the us own about 80 percent of all the guns, said professor Jens Ludwig of Georgetown University, who conducted the study. That translates into about 150 million guns.And gun dealers like Don Davis confirm it. According to him, new buyers include the exception. "I would say 60 to 70 to 80 percent of the guns we'll sell today are to people who have other guns. We know customers that's got a thousand guns."And what you spend on their guns, additionally, they gladly spend on the politicians who share their take on the subject. "I think that money can be there. I think people who probably never donated a nickel into a political campaign in their life would dig in that room and lay it out. I truly do," said McCoskey.And the figures show these people have. Since Columbine, gun makers and gun lobbyists have poured a lot more than $1 million into this fall's elections.