Word: boundingly
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...SEEMED AS ROUTINE AS PUNCHING UP a favorite station on the car radio--the simple push of a button. But this time it would kill them. Before lifting off from southern Turkey, bound for northern Iraq on April 14 of last year, the pilots of two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters activated the "friend-or-foe" system designed to identify them to other U.S. aircraft. They set it to frequency 42. That was the setting prescribed in the top-secret "air-tasking order" they received from the Air Force each day they ventured into the part of Iraq policed...
About an hour later, two U.S. F-15 fighter jets took off from another Turkish base, bound for the same Iraqi "no-fly zone." They too had an air-tasking order, but with a fatal difference: they were told to set their friend-or-foe system to frequency 52. When the fighters, under orders to shoot down any Iraqi aircraft they encountered, saw two helicopters on their radar screens, their sophisticated electronics failed to identify the choppers as "friendly." After a hurried, heart-pounding attempt to confirm their suspicions visually, the fighter pilots fired two missiles that destroyed...
...entryway system has its ups and downs. The rooms are more likely to be private and quiet, a boon if you're into a sedentary lifestyle. ON the other hand, casual dropin visits to anyone above the third floor are bound to seem a little contrived. Some find the entryway setup picturesque and charming. Others are less gracious, grumbling that a social life determined by stairwell is both tiring and stifling...
Still, advocates of youth wilderness camps caution that not all programs are created equal. At their best, the camps combine the physical challenges of an Outward Bound-style experience with counseling to help troubled teens who have not benefited by more traditional intervention. At Camp E-Hun-Tee in Exeter, Rhode Island, which is run by Eckerd Family Youth Alternatives, Inc.-whose 14 camps nationwide are a model for other wilderness programs-at-risk youths spend as long as a year in the woods. "I'd rather be at home," says a 14-year-old E-Hun-Tee camper, whose...
...liberty to virtue,'' says Gary Bauer, the former Reagan White House aide who is president of the Family Research Council. "If you expose children to uplifting and noble material, you're more likely to have noble citizens. If children are wallowing in sexual images and violence, that is bound to have an impact on those who are most vulnerable...