Some of the wounded are afraid to seek treatment at the already overwhelmed hospitals, fearful of heading into a rocket attack while driving through streets of pummeled buildings and concrete shards.
**{:.break one} ** Pop star Lance Bass is back at Russia's cosmonaut center for a new training session, despite being excluded from the crew of a rocket heading to the international space station next month.
"Their energy," he said of the students as he headed toward a Rockets team meeting.
Mr. Pope and an associate were purchasing technical reports on the Shkval, or Squall, rocket-propelled torpedo from Prof. Anatoly Babkin, the head of the rocket engine department of Bauman State Technical University here.
Bush arranged for Charles C. Lauritsen, the head of the rocket team at Caltech, to visit the Los Alamos Laboratory, and meet with the project director, Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., the laboratory director, Robert Oppenheimer, and senior scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory.
"There needs to be an excellence throughout the organization," said Musk, the co-founder of PayPal Inc., who also heads SpaceX, a rocket company in Hawthorne.
In the meantime, you can read the contest rules summary here (PDF), and if you happen to be a rocket scientist or the head of a commercial space outfit, you can register for the challenge here.
Commander Ali himself was seen at the head of a column of pickup trucks, carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers, racing up the bumpy dirt road southward toward the front, past herds of camels and goats, past newly sown opium poppy fields and a sign reading, in English, "Welcome to a drug fre (sic) Afghanistan".
The launching of Russian Dnepr rockets from the Soviet-era Baikonur space center has been suspended pending a Kazakh investigation of a crash of a rocket last week, said Azamat Abdymomunov, who heads the government inquiry.
"We're not heading down the route of slapping 'Pizza Hut' on the side of a rocket," says Ogilvy spokesperson Nicholas Lunt.
"The large investment by Alibaba into Southeast Asia is a testament to how fast the region has grown over the last years and the potential it has," said Stefan Jung, founder partner of Venturra Capital, a $150 million Indonesia-based fund started last year, and the former head of Rocket Internet in Southeast Asia.
