Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, after weeks of effort, the studying, double-checking and vetting in Washington and Europe were finished. Air Force weapons technicians in Missouri loaded the ill-aimed, satellite-guided bombs into the belly of the radar-eluding Stealth bomber. From that point onward, for the first time in the whole process, U.S. technology--and its human masters--worked flawlessly...
Chernomyrdin is fighting battles of his own. The Russian is irritated with Milosevic's and Clinton's intransigence. His aides say Chernomyrdin has formed a picture of Milosevic as a complex leader split between two desires: to save face and to save his own skin. As the air war intensifies, Chernomyrdin aides say, Milosevic has started sleeping in a different bed every night and swapping cell phones for fear NATO will use them to pinpoint him for an air strike...
...time--and those air strikes Milosevic is running away from--may be working perversely to soften NATO's resolve. With the alliance flying more than 200 sorties a day, the rate of collateral damage is growing. Serbia's state-controlled media claimed last week that another errant bomb killed more than 60 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, making some allies more nervous about civilian casualties. Germany's Green Party, part of the government's ruling coalition, broke ranks and called for a "limited halt" to the bombing. To placate U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has been pressing for another independent...
...will soon have a new way to stay alive while waiting to be rescued. The AvaLung by Black Diamond Equipment ($200, available in September) is a special mesh vest designed to keep snow from melting around the face and freezing into a deadly ice mask. A tube filters fresh air into the wearer's mouth and then channels warm, moist, exhaled air safely out the back...
...BEST FRIEND Looking for the perfect pet, one that never slobbers, growls or barks in the night? Meet Sony's AIBO (Artificial Intelligence Robot), a foot-tall plastic pup, powered by computer chip, that can walk, sit, lie down, even raise a paw in the air. Stroke a sensor on its head, and AIBO wags its tail; throw a ball, and a digital camera in its snout will track it. A remote control turns it left or right. Available at www.world.sony.com/robot/for $2,500, AIBO costs more than most purebreds. But it doesn't shed, can't dig holes...