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...backed by British cruise missiles, swooped down from the clouds and dropped their payloads on poor, doomed Afghanistan. They came in waves, one after another, trying to hit their targets and dodge antiaircraft fire. But there was more than just bombs falling from the sky. Air Force C-17 cargo planes began dropping pouches of food, thousands upon thousands of "culturally neutral," vitamin-fortified rice cakes, each stamped with the American flag and the words: THIS FOOD IS A GIFT FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...same time, massive Air Force C-17 cargo planes, also dropped food and medical supplies - both of which were branded as being from the U.S. - on displaced Afghan civilians. President Bush has approved $320 million in aid for Afghanistan; administration officials expect neighboring Pakistan, which accepted a flood of refugees before the air strikes began, to receive humanitarian assistance from the U.S. as well...
Business and political leaders in the U.S., Canada and Russia are mulling a plan to build a railroad tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. A rail link, they say, could carry 30 billion tons of cargo a year and cut shipping time from Los Angeles to Vladivostok as much as two weeks. It's an attainable feat: the strait is only 60 miles wide at its narrowest point (twice as wide as the English Channel Tunnel, which took seven years and $15 billion to construct). But to make the Bering tunnel accessible on the North American side, connecting lines would have...
...prevent weapons of mass destruction from crossing our borders, the new Homeland Security Agency must knit together America's border-control services, increasing the number of vehicles and cargo containers inspected at our entry points. Inspectors must be focused on the most likely targets and trained to carry out their missions with the least possible disruption to international commerce. Though the agency should not have intelligence-collection responsibilities, it should be able to command special priority in focusing intelligence on threats to the homeland, so that crucial information gets where it needs to go, and gets there on time...
...supply of crutches and leg braces. A range of Rotary Clubs and other service groups assist the Samaritan with logistics and funding so that he can mount missions as far afield as Kosovo, Kenya and Argentina. Through Airline Ambassadors, an aid group of airline employees, Gray grabs air-cargo space for his bulky shipments...