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...9 SPACE: A CRITICAL DIMENSION . . . . . . . . .32 VULNERABILITY OF SPACE-BASED ASSETS . . 35 POTENTIAL THREATS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NORTH KOREA: KEY EXPORTER OF TECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 The DPRK’s Ballistic Missile Capabilities. . . .38 North Korea: A Nuclear Sphinx . . . . . . . . . . 46 INDIA: A GROWING BALLISTIC MISS...

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...examines current US efforts to cooperatively develop and deploy with Japan and South Korea a theater missile defense (TMD) family of systems (FoS) in Northeast Asia. First, the author summarizes the US security strategy for the East Asia-Pacific region with emphasis on the importance of regional missile defense. Second, he characterizes the ballistic missile capabilities o...

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...es, 444 Airliners cases, 193 private light planes (19 multiple aircraft, 43 cases with no mention of type of aircraft). Among the 1305 cases, 702 are North American. A detailed study and a database of the 200 radar-cases in this catalog (about 15%) is currently under development at the French Space Agency (CNES) in France, as a SEPRA project led by Jean-Jacques Velasco. An...

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...hs Nicola as she brushes past him and goes into the bedroom. Stef and Nicola live in a ground floor flat on the outskirts of a seaside town on the north Kent coast in England. The flat is large, as the building, built in the eighteen hundreds and of Victorian design, was originally built for a wealthy land owner to be a home for his large family of nine children; and as...

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...was right, and I couldn’t argue with that, so I kept quiet. Nick paced in a circle, his brows drawn. I’d never seen him so mad…or scared. “We’re in North Carolina. And our original destination is 600 miles away. I say we head back home which is 500 miles away. It’s going to take us three times as long to get back because we can only go certain routes.” He shook my should...

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...out the disaster to the Martinez and placed me in my present situation. To the north, and not far away, a group of naked rocks thrust above the sea, o... ...e southwest into that portion of the sea where he expected to pick up with the northeast trades. It was before this steady wind that he hoped to make ... ...make the major portion of the run to Japan, curving south into the tropics and north again as he approached the coast of Asia. Chapter V 31 After bre... ...f Larsen patrolled the poop constantly, his eyes ever searching the sea to the northeastward, from which direction the great trade wind must blow. Th... ... Chapter VII A T LAST, after three days of variable winds, we have caught the northeast trades. I came on deck, after a good night’s rest in spite of... ...ts, varying from time to time, is the speed we are making. And ever out of the northeast the brave wind blows, driving us on our course two hundred an... ...ok. I place the transparent scale on this star map, revolving the scale on the North Pole. On the scale I’ve worked out the circles of altitude and th... ...ibing across the Pacific, and is already beginning to edge away to the west and north toward some lone island, it is rumored, where she will fill her wa... ...d I grew to love the heave and roll of the Ghost under my feet as she wallowed north and west through the tropic sea to the islet where we filled our w...

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...Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through some of the most trecherous terrain in North America. He would soon learn that it was not only the terrain that was forbidding, as he begins to understand why the prev...

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...t midway between Aldgate Church and Whitechappel Bars, on the left hand or north side of the street; and as the distemper had not reached to that side... ... strait as to a place where to go, having several friends and relations in Northamptonshire, whence our family first came from; and particularly , I h... ...e- fourth part to the suburbs in the county of Middlesex, and the east and north parts of the city. But this latter I only speak of as a report. Certa... ...e went quite away to sea, and put into such harbours and safe roads on the north coast as they could best come at. But it was also true that all the p... ... beginning of July; and though the plague was come forward in the west and north parts of the town, yet all Wapping, as I have observed before, and Re... ...t,’ says he, ‘the weather is very hot, and therefore I am for travel- ling north, that we may not have the sun upon our faces and beating on our breas... ... so to hit that the wind might not be in the south when they set out to go north. John the baker, who bad been a soldier, then put in his opinion. ‘Fi... ...the Hermitage, and that the plague was now very violent, especially on the north side of the city, as in Shoreditch and Cripplegate parish, they did n... ...veral sepa- rated hamlets), and travelled on till they came into the great north road on the top of Stamford Hill. By this time they began to be weary...

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...r principal Trading being upon the Coast, from the Latitude of 15 Degrees, North even to the Line it self. I was now set up for a Guiney Trader; and m... ...d the like. The same Day I went on board we set sail, standing away to the Northward upon our own Coast, with Design to stretch over for the African C... ...retch over for the African Coast, when they came about 10 or 12 Degrees of Northern Latitude, which it seems was the manner of their Course in those D... ... about 12 days time, and were by our last Observation in 7 Degrees 22 Min. Northern Latitude, when a violent Tournado or Hurricane took us quite out o... ...uite out of our Knowledge; it began from the South East, came about to the North West, and then settled into the North West, from whence it blew in su... ...Observation as well as he could, and found that he was in about 11 Degrees North Latitude, but that he was 22 Degrees of Longitude difference West fro... ...Augustino; so that he found he was gotten upon the Coast of Guinea, or the North Part of Brasil, beyond the River Amozones, toward that of the River O... ... which seem’d to over top some other Hills which lay as in a Ridge from it northward; I took out one of the fowling Pieces, and one of the Pistols, an... ...n’d my self, by Observation, to be in the Latitude of 9 Degrees 22 Minutes North of the Line. After I had been there about Ten or Twelve Days, it came...

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...Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition...

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...an. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much ... ...I have been to school in both coun- tries, and I found, in the boys of the North, something at once rougher and more tender, at once more reserve and ... ...r of each is plainly demonstrated to the other. Our tasks ended, we of the North go forth as freemen into the humming, lamplit city. At five o’clock y... ...rent social constitution from his fellow-countrymen either of the south or north. Even the English, it is recorded, did not loathe the Highlander and ... ...shadowy walks, and the splendid breadth of champaign that one saw from the north-west corner. The garden and gar- dener seem part and parcel of each o... ...gineer-grandfather (the son-in-law of the lamp and oil man) when he sailed north about Scotland on the famous cruise that gave us the pirate and the L... ...of all possible accommoda- 55 Memories and Portraits tion, pitched on the northern inlet as the scene of opera- tions. For it was no accident that ha... ...here cheek by jowl, with our feet upon our baggage, in a beautiful, clear, northern summer eve. And behold! there was now a pier of stone, there were ... ...he year 1818, the grandson of Thomas Smith, first engineer to the Board of Northern Lights, son of Robert Stevenson, brother of Alan and David; so tha...

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...ese notes I learned that the family had lived in the same village, Ecton, in Northamptonshire, for three hundred years, and how much longer he knew no... ... a chief mover of all public spirited undertakings for the county or town of Northampton, and his own village, of which many instances were related of... ...he ministers that had been outed for nonconfor mity holding conventicles in Northamptonshire, Benjamin and Josiah adhered to them, and so continued a... ...entice to learn a new trade. Many of our Welsh people are going to settle in North The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 60 Carolina, where land is ... ..., the company being increased to one hundred: this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numer ous. It is become a ... ...Orphan House there, in which they might be supported and educated. Returning northward, he preach’d up this char ity, and made large collections, for... ...earning their exercise, the governor prevail’d with me to take charge of our North western frontier, which was infested by the enemy, and provide for ... ...ord and Edinburgh; returns to America. 1763 Makes a five months’ tour of the northern colonies for the Purpose of inspecting the post offices. 1764 De...