Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defence project

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defence at a time of rapid technological change. The announced reason for cancelling the Boeing contract, effective Thursday, was that the project's design problems were so significant as to be either insurmountable or too costly to correct. Beyond those immediate concerns