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'True West' at JPAS is a brash, confrontational blow-up between brothers on different paths
Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He fooled around with punk poet Patti ...
The Redmond Spokesman3dOpinion
Column: How not to manage the bureaucracy
The trouble with governing from myth rather than fact is that you break that which isn’t broken and end up with the very ...
First independently developed jet breaks the sound barrier over the California desert
A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier on Tuesday, Jan. 28, tearing ...
From Jim Crow life to four-star rank: Air Force’s Newton overcame hardscrabble youth to succeed
Gen. Lloyd W. “Fig” Newton triumphed over a system that did its best to keep him in a position of second-class citizenship ...
MIT Technology Review4d
Supersonic planes are inching toward takeoff. That could be a problem.
Supersonic planes will burn significantly more fuel than current aircraft, resulting in higher emissions of carbon dioxide, ...
The Columbian6d
Independently funded jet’s sound barrier mark revives talk of commercial supersonic travel
An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic became the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier this week. The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test f ...