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...Outback while others recount less unconventional tales of European vacations and camping trips. Writer Lori Mayfield discusses diarrhea on safari, while Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth instructs readers on the ideal disposal of a “turd.” Ellen Degeneres devotes two paragraphs to an airport bathroom story wherein she feels falsely accused of causing a foul odor in the facility. “And now I’ve got to explain that the smell was in there before I went in there,” Degeneres says. “Does that ever happen...
...jump over undesirable places. Coast to coast flight is implicitly about the Middleland, which we may get to know through the comforting familiarity of islands like Cincinnati or Atlanta. The Middleland is a vast sea populated by atolls, stopover oases in the middle of an untraversable desert. Its airports simply reproduce the array of gates, fast-food establishments and X-ray machines that we’d find in any airport. Every airport looks the same, and no matter where we have to stopover, we feel comfortable because it looks just like the place we’d like...
...initial goal of U.S. forces in Haiti was to protect "key facilities" like the airport. But as the pro-Aristide mobs, known as chimeres, tried to take back parts of Port-au-Prince last week, vengefully looting and shooting up neighborhoods, the U.S. and France responded by launching street patrols. Unlike troops in many other peacekeeping efforts who pledge to use deadly force only in self-defense, soldiers in Haiti will be armed "with the rules that allow them to do their job," said General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--meaning they can intervene to stop...
...irony did not escape Luis Moreno. In the blackness before dawn on Feb. 29, the U.S. official waited with Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the tarmac of the Port-au-Prince airport for the Haitian President's getaway plane. Moreno recalled that he had escorted Aristide on his triumphant, U.S.-backed return to Haiti 10 years earlier. When Moreno expressed regret at the turn of events, he says, the soon-to-be exiled leader replied, "Sometimes life is like that...
After they arrived at the airport to await a U.S.-chartered plane, Moreno asked Aristide for a letter of resignation as proof of a voluntary transfer of power. As his American-born wife Mildred sat in sullen silence, Aristide pulled the letter from her purse. In a single paragraph written in Creole, Aristide renounced his office: "The Constitution should not drown in the blood of the Haitian people...I agree to leave with the hope that there will be life and not death." The Boeing 757 finally arrived, and at 6:15 a.m. on Feb. 29, Aristide fled the country...