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...Pakistan as a place where you are likely to get shot at. Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters are hidden in the mountains below, often armed with armor-piercing rounds that can penetrate the skin of his helicopter. But last Monday night, McFadden and his crew joined a small aerial armada of U.S. choppers heading towards this dangerous borderland-without guns...
...rooms, beds for 600 patients and most of its 1,200 sailors idle. Foreign nations--responding to urgent calls from Washington--readied rescue supplies, then were told to stand by for days until FEMA could figure out what to do with them. Florida airboaters complained that they had an armada ready for rescue work but FEMA wouldn't let them into New Orleans. Brown defended his agency's measured steps, saying aid "has to be coordinated in such a way that it's used most effectively...
...watching location. The cetaceans are on their yearly migration from the warm waters off northern Queensland (where their calves are born) to Antarctica?and Hervey Bay is a favored stopover. There are dawn, half-day and full-day whale-watching tours, with expert commentary and refreshments, offered by an armada of boats throughout the season. Humpbacks are surprisingly agile for their size (the average adult is longer than 13 m and weighs about 30 tons), so expect to see lots of blowing, tail slapping and breaching (pictured). Australia's cuddly koalas and kangaroos usually hog the tourist limelight, but this...
...watching location. The cetaceans are on their yearly migration from the warm waters off northern Queensland (where their calves are born) to Antarctica - and Hervey Bay is a favored stopover. There are dawn, half-day and full-day whale-watching tours, with expert commentary and refreshments, offered by an armada of boats throughout the season. Humpbacks are surprisingly agile for their size (the average adult is longer than 13 m and weighs about 30 tons), so expect to see lots of blowing, tail slapping and breaching. Australia's cuddly koalas and kangaroos usually hog the tourist limelight, but this...
...WFAN one Saturday morning in May, Ed Randall introduced me as one of the many guys who had authored what was already, by then, ?a flotilla? of Red Sox books. Ed?s a very nice guy and he said it jokingly. I interjected that it was more like ?an armada.? We chuckled and proceeded onto more serious subjects, like Foulke?s bygone fastball...