Word: airs
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Perhaps the desire to achieve further damage in Serbia and thus prove the success of the air strikes has prevented NATO from planning its attacks more carefully and thus avoiding disasters of such magnitude. But we don't know why this happened, because NATO has been less than forthright about its strategy and eventual goals...
Though there's always something unknowable about the motives of these student mass murderers, Harris' role in the massacre was no surprise to some Columbine students: they assumed it was Harris as soon as they realized someone was shooting. The son of a retired Air Force officer and a caterer--decent, well-intentioned people who seem to have been wholly outmatched by their cold, manipulative son--Harris was not an unlikely candidate for suburban mayhem. In his childhood, moving with his family from Air Force bases in Ohio and Michigan and upstate New York, he was remembered fondly...
FLIGHT SIMULATORS Best-selling MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR now comes in two flavors--with combat and without. The aim, not surprisingly, is to stay aloft while handling all the complexities of a modern cockpit. Unless you count deliberately crashing into a cornfield or re-enacting air combat from World War II, there's not too much mayhem...
...Beth was worried too--about what the Nintendo console in the basement might be doing to her kids. She decided that there would be no more violent video games in the Smith house. "I told them they could go jump on the trampoline or play the pinball machine or air hockey," she says. "There wasn't much protest...
Indeed, despite Jackson's mission and quieter diplomatic peace overtures by the Russians, there was no letup in NATO's air war. Last week the Pentagon announced that 10 additional B-52 heavy bombers would join several others launching attacks against Yugoslavia. The additional bombers will add 500-lb. iron bombs for attacks on troop concentrations, as well as precision-guided, Israeli-made missiles that carry 1,000-lb. warheads. Meanwhile, about 12 hours before word of the release reached Washington, Clinton imposed a U.S. trade embargo on the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, intent on choking off the supply...