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...word is quickly getting out to pilots in training. An aviation major and recent graduate of Georgia State University, Adnan Pochi, 21, has been flying since age 15 and has already racked up 300 flying hours. Although he will probably start off at a U.S. regional carrier, Pochi is attracted to the energy at airlines overseas. He hopes someday to go to India to work for Kingfisher Airlines. "They're hiring like crazy," says Pochi. "It's a big market...
...sense of solipsism and security and realized that it was a part of a broad and sometimes frightening world. The videos of Britney’s commercials are potent links to a longed-for past, while our current consumption of each new pointless piece on Britney, Kevin, and Adnan Ghalib helps us escape the fear of today...
Reports of Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad fill Adnan and Noora Awadi with envy and nostalgia. The young couple--whose names have been changed, since they fear reprisals if quoted in the media--fled to the Jordanian capital, Amman, in the summer of 2006 and are yearning to go back to their leafy street in al-Yarmouk, a middle-class neighborhood in Baghdad. Noora, 28, misses their modest one-story home so much, she is sentimental even about its defects. "The sink in the kitchen is cracked, there are termites everywhere, and sometimes in the summer we can smell...
...violence that forced them to flee in the first place. Many refugees lost loved ones, either to the Shi'ite mobs that rampaged unchecked through the streets of Baghdad several times last year or to reprisal killings by Sunni insurgents. The Awadis were lucky: they had fair warning. Adnan still remembers the strong body odor of the six armed men from the Shi'ite Mahdi Army militia who walked into his office at the Health Ministry and demanded that he quit his job and get out of the country. Said the leader of the group: "We are cleaning the government...
...Maliki government has promised to integrate more militiamen into government forces, but that's hardly reassuring. Adnan Awadi's former colleagues have told him that the Mahdi Army men who threatened him all now have jobs in the Health Ministry. "If I show my face there again ... my son's eyeballs will end up in a bottle," Adnan says...