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After an 11-hour flight from Amsterdam to Tokyo, Eiko Ishii was thanking the attendants at the aircraft exit when her face went white and she collapsed. Her husband helped her to a seat and Ishii lost consciousness. Her hands began jerking in spasms. She awoke to her sister telling her a wheelchair was waiting by the door. Sitting down again, she blacked out once more and her eyes rolled back in her head. "My husband and sister told me they thought I was dying," she says...
Though UTC won't comment on the commission's investigations, sources close to the case say it opposed the deal. That makes sense. UTC's Pratt & Whitney division is a competitor of GE's in the global market for large aircraft engines. (With Rolls-Royce of Britain, the companies make up what is, in effect, a three-member oligopoly.) GE's competitors may have thought that by combining GE's engines with Honeywell's advanced electronics, Jack Welch's company would have been able to offer customers an irresistible package--especially since GE, through its aircraft-leasing division, is itself...
...uranium in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima came from the Congo. So does the cobalt, essential in the construction of advanced fighter aircraft, as well as diamonds, gold and some of the purest copper on the planet. Even the coltan computer chips in the latest Sony Play Station are made from columbite-tantalite, a mineral mined in the Congo...
...long way from conclusion, having briefly collapsed this week over ethnic-Albanian demands for veto power over major government decisions and Macedonian Slav reluctance to accept radical constitutional changes. But even as those talks continued in Skopje's cavernous parliament buildings, the government took delivery of eight new attack aircraft -including four helicopters - from Ukraine, doubling the size of its air force, and further draining the country's treasury . On Friday, government forces ended a two-week cease-fire by launching a withering artillery bombardment of the hill towns just outside the capital recently seized by ethnic Albanian rebels...
...came close to the reports that European security services are preparing to counter a Bin Laden attempt to assassinate President Bush at next month's G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. According to German intelligence sources, the plot involved Bin Laden paying German neo-Nazis to fly remote controlled-model aircraft packed with Semtex into the conference hall and blow the leaders of the industrialized world to smithereens. (Paging Jerry Bruckheimer?) The Russians, who believe a Bin Laden attack in Genoa is more likely to be carried out by their old enemy, the Chechens, have sent an advance team of anti...