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...program begun in 1981 to provide a troop transport for all four military services; the Army dropped out two years later for cost reasons, and then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, also citing cost, failed to kill it over objections from Congress - and the Marines. The V-22, built by Bell Helicopter and the Boeing Co., was deemed ideal for carrying troops because it can take off and land like a helicopter, then tilt its engines and rotors forward to fly like a turboprop airplane. After three fatal crashes, numerous delays and compromises that some inside the military believe endanger those...
...superb student, Conan Doyle went on to medical school, where he was entranced by Dr. Joseph Bell, a charismatic professor with an uncanny ability to diagnose patients even before they opened their mouths. For a time he worked as Bell's outpatient clerk and would watch, amazed, at how the location of a callus could reveal a man's profession, or how a quick look at a skin rash told Bell that the patient had once lived in Bermuda. In 1886, Conan Doyle - by now an eye doctor - outlined his first novel, A Study in Scarlet, which he described...
...marked by tragedy - he lost his brother Innes and his son Kingsley to World War I - and by controversy, as he became Britain's most famous defender of spiritualism, convinced of our ability to communicate with the dead through a medium. (Among those he contacted: his son and Dr. Bell.) It brought personal solace and public ridicule. In one of his last letters to his mother, who never embraced these beliefs, he wrote: "What does it matter what anyone says of me. I have a good hide by this time." After his death in 1930, all of this would...
Woods never got the chance to test his game against the legends he's chasing--Nicklaus, Palmer, Player--but he has put his name on the line against those greats in course development. Carrying the bag for Tiger Woods Design, president Bryon Bell admits the pressure is on. "Tiger does have to deliver a great product, and that's the reason we've focused so hard to find a great site and a great partner to give us the best opportunity to deliver a design that will knock it out of the park...
...having Bell's palsy affect who you are today? -Spencer Navejar, Provo, UtahFreshman year in high school is a bad time to have half your face paralyzed, but it helped me develop more of a personality. You have to make fun of yourself, or else you're going to have a really rough life...