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...utilitarian past, produced using skills that still take a decade to learn. Pick up a Glass Route "passport" from local tourist offices which will get you into the Glass Museum and the factories to see glassmaking the old-fashioned way - and if you ask nicely you may get to blow it yourself...
...clear thinking was replacing some of our fear, and many of us accepted the fact that we had to get off the beach. Word was passed that a small draw providing access up the bluff had been found and that attempts were being made to blow up the barbed wire with bangalore torpedoes and find a way up through the mines. As I started up, I saw the white tape marking a safe path through the mines, and I also saw the price paid to mark that path for us. Several G.I.s had been blown to death, and another, still...
...raising serious questions about 2E's future. "This concourse was a showcase, a crown jewel," laments Pierre Graff, president of Aéroports de Paris (ADP), which operates Charles de Gaulle (CDG), Orly, Le Bourget and 14 other airports in the greater Paris region. "This is a very hard blow to our image." The collapse also threatens to pound ADP's bottom line. If major design or construction flaws are found to be at fault, the entire building might have to be razed and rebuilt. ADP refuses to speculate on that; independent experts say that after insurance is factored...
This concourse was a showcase, a crown jewel. this is a very hard blow to our image...
...fact is, America's sense of itself has taken a stunning blow. We are still recovering from the last week of April, when the Abu Ghraib photos were revealed and the U.S. military chose not to fight the Islamic radicals in Fallujah (a retreat compounded by last week's decision not to pursue Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army). Taken together, those events represent a coherent pattern of behavior-that of a schoolyard bully, who tortures the weak and runs away from the strong. This is, sadly, the way Abu Ghraib and Fallujah are perceived by our enemies...