The military deployment is set to wrap up December 15 and it is not clear what will become of the wire fencing
With today’s rocket technology, it would take an astronaut up to nine months to reach Mars
Pentagon planners are taking pains to avoid hitting Russian military assets.
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/ 24 October 2007
After three days of a vicious firestorm, exhausted firefighters and weary residents looked forward on Wednesday to a break — an expected slackening of the gale-force winds that have ignited California’s largest complex of wildland blazes. ”By Thursday, we’re expecting it to be pretty much over,” said a meteorologist.
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/ 23 October 2007
Thousands more people were ordered to evacuate their homes on Tuesday, bringing the number of people chased away by the wind-whipped flames that have engulfed southern California to at least 270 000. The dozen wildfires have burned more than 700 homes and set 99 537ha ablaze.