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After the interview, I called a cab to run us back to the airport. "Five or ten minutes," the dispatcher promised, by which she apparently meant, "53 minutes." When the cab finally dropped me outside the American Airlines terminal, it was 5:06 p.m. My flight...
...took off jogging again. I skimmed up an escalator, onto a tram, back down and around and finally into a dim waiting room in the remotest frontier of the airport where another crowd of about 120 grumpy people was preparing to board another long-delayed flight. The blank, defeated expression on their faces was all too familiar. It was the resigned look of the villager whose home is being sacked by Visigoths, the hopeless face of a pioneer woman watching her family's crop laid waste by locusts. The face of the American traveler, year 2008. A face I have...
...been involved with community development for the previous decade. And since his younger brother Cherone was killed in the U.S.S. Cole bombing in 2000, Gunn had become even more devoted to public service. Then, returning from a trip to Washington, he wandered into a bookstore at Reagan National Airport and saw a copy of Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope. He'd heard Obama's name bandied about with those of other possible presidential candidates but hadn't taken it seriously. "That skinny guy I saw at church two years ago?" Gunn remembers thinking. "He wants...
...Although the cause of the crash has not been confirmed, the MD-82 plane was taking off on a flight to the Canary Islands from Madrid's Barajas airport when one of its engines apparently caught fire. "The nose of the plane and the front wheels had lifted," said Public Works Minister Magdalena Alvarez at a press conference Wednesday. "Whether the rear wheels got off the ground is still being investigated...
...plane hit the ground, splitting in two and sending flames and smoke up into the sky, and a few survivors to the dusty ground. Rescue workers describe the scene as horrific. According to one who was leaving the airport yesterday evening, his boots covered in soot, "It was like a scene from hell. Bodies were everywhere...