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...group of Bangkok academics and human-rights advocates pushing for more sensitive policies in dealing with the region's woes. One suggestion he has embraced is a plan to mobilize the nation to fold 62 million origami paper "peace" doves that will be dropped on the south by military aircraft on Dec. 5, the King's birthday. Since hearing the royal family's speeches, Thaksin "has adopted a different tone," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a security and defense analyst at the Institute of Security and International Studies at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. "But he still stands firmly behind...
...have been out of power for seven months, but it's still coming under heavy fire. The latest scandal concerns the May 26, 2003, plane crash that claimed the lives of 62 Spanish soldiers who were returning from peacekeeping duty in Afghanistan when their Ukrainian-registered Yakovlev-42 aircraft went down in the mountains of Turkey. Aznar's government was criticized by the families of the deceased for transporting them in an old plane in such poor condition. Now it turns out that the bodies of 30 of those soldiers were incorrectly identified - and sent to the wrong families...
...game is called Halo, and it wasn't actually Level 17; it was Level 5. I had been slugging it out for what seemed like--and probably was--hours with a bunch of aliens in an icy canyon. Just as all hope was fading, I seized an alien aircraft and made my escape. I sailed up into the darkening sky with light snow sifting down around me. Moody music, like something from Carmina Burana, swelled in the background. The sounds of battle faded beneath me in the dusk. It was like the end of Platoon, and I was Charlie Sheen...
...years of political infighting over cost and feasibility, with the help of 1,000 subcontractors in 43 states. The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 277 Raptors at a cost of $258 million each. The stealth fighter can fly 1,500 kilometers per hour without detection and engage enemy aircraft beyond the pilot's range of vision...
...Force One. "We're at war," he said. As the President's plane was taking off over Florida, Kerry strode down the steps of the Capitol in Washington, having received orders to evacuate. In an interview with the New York Times, Kerry recalled scanning the skies for incoming aircraft as he left the building. He turned to someone near him. "This is war," Kerry remembers saying. "This...