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...Ultimate Book of Family Travel. She suggests a variety of destinations and itineraries and provides work sheets to help design trips that satisfy adults' interests and kids' dreams. She also offers tips on how to pack like a pro and includes Boredom Bags, suitable for long car rides and airport delays...
Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish Autonomous Region of northern Iraq, is less than an hour's flight from Baghdad but almost a world away. While the insurgent-plagued airport road in Baghdad is known as the "Highway of Death," the road from the newly opened Erbil International Airport, plagued by nothing more dangerous than cyclists in spandex, wends through construction for a real estate development called "Dream City," a planned community of several hundred California-style detached single-family homes, a supermarket and an American school. Fueled by oil wealth from rich fields in the region, Kurdistan...
...more fundamental problem is what aviation security lawyers deride as the government?s "imperial overreach." Prosecutors are arguing that if Moussaoui had come clean with FBI agents interrogating him before 9/11, airport security could have been beefed up to foil the hijackers. In other words, they are claiming that he should be put to death because of his inactions rather than his actions. "It?s enough of a stretch to get juries to convict people who drive getaway cars in a murder of conspiracy," says one government security lawyer not involved in the case. "But these prosecutors think Moussaoui should...
...well be, but even Carla Martin's e-mails to prep witnesses - which were intended to bolster the government's case - ended up pointing out a serious flaw in it. As part of their case, prosecutors are arguing that if Moussaoui had come clean about the plot, enhanced airport screening could have detected the short-bladed knives that the hijackers carried on board. But as Martin herself wrote in one of her e-mails, "There is no way anyone could say that the carriers could have prevented all short-bladed knives from going through...
Bakshi, a senior in Leverett House, was conducting research for a joint social studies and visual and environmental studies thesis on political propaganda. While aboard his departure flight at Harare airport on Dec. 30, he was arrested and detained for “possessing videocassettes related to his research,” a spokeswoman for the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, Angela P. Aggeler, wrote in an e-mail...