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...extra income would help the beleaguered industry. The major carriers have lost about $35 billion since 9/11, and the high price of jet fuel has left only a few airlines forecasting profits for this year. Security scares (or worse) still loom large; just last August an airline bomb plot was foiled in London--a reminder of how fragile confidence in air travel remains...
...getting medals has become more cumbersome. Some commanders are reacting against what they see as medal inflation in recent wars, especially Gulf War I. And there may be fewer opportunities for Audie Murphy--style heroics when your enemy is planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) or driving a car bomb. But the nearly 3,000 war dead testify to the peril of those fighting in Iraq, and a growing chorus has been speaking out against the Pentagon's parsimony. They're asking why there have not been more élite medals and why there have been huge disparities in the number...
...morning of my flight to Gatwick Airport—July 21, 2005—terrorists attempted to bomb the London public transportation system. I wound up never leaving New York, never enrolling in “Development in the International Political Economy,” and I accepted it all as divine, terrifying providence...
...that I don’t like Guernica at all, although I helped [Pablo Picasso] hang the painting,” he writes. “Recently, I discovered that Alberti, and Jose Bergamin share my opinion. All three of us would like to put a bomb under Guernica, but we are too old now for such things...
...Haditha case began after an insurgent bomb killed a Marine in Haditha, 60 miles north of Baghdad, on Nov. 19, 2005. In the hours after his death, a squad of Marines killed 24 Iraqis, including some who local civilians claim were innocents simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Marines initially reported that only 15 Iraqis had died, and that they had been killed by a roadside bomb. Senior Marine officers did not investigate the incident at the time. The death toll went uninvestigated until TIME magazine raised questions last February...