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...Cedric, an 18-year-old Swiss student, smokes dope regularly with his friends on trains, in the streets and parks of Geneva, even during high school recess. "The teachers know about it but don't say anything," he says. In Marseilles two months ago, 20 crewmen on the aircraft carrier Foch had consumed cannabis so flagrantly on board that a military court had to punish them but handed out only suspended sentences. Judging by the fragrant smoke wafting around the ship, the crewmen estimated that two-thirds of their shipmates were equally guilty...
...Airways says Metrojet is doing so badly it might even kill the subsidiary as part of its new strategy. If they can't make money with an airline designed especially for the job, what do you think can be achieved with the parent carrier...
...Then there?s the plan to find, instead of the "marriage partner" that United was supposed to be, a good friend to set up an alliance with. This made some analysts laugh out loud - not because a partnership wouldn?t help US Airways, but because the carrier is deemed to be rather less than the sum of its parts. According to analysts, airline CEOs might covet some of US Airways routes, as United did. But they don't have any interest in joining forces as independents and allowing the company's current leadership keep running things. In fact, some industry...
...border. Instead, there was an unusual absence of lines at the airport - the only people trying to get into Moscow during the coup were journalists. I flagged down a car to get into the city, and we quickly passed the first sign of the military takeover: an armored personnel carrier by the roadside. It had broken down. "Morons," the driver snarled as we drove past the soldiers. I began to wonder if this coup was as inexorably destined for victory as I had thought...
...having served two years as a gunner on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in the Pacific, he watched another carrier, the U.S.S. Franklin, turned into an oven by a Japanese bombing attack, smelling the stench of more than 700 men slow-roasted alive between its steel decks. "After that," he wrote, "I became a f___ing coward & was ready to come home immediately, to hell with the war & all that crap about what we are fighting for, etc? Well anyway the Korean War came along & I wanted to see if I was still a coward--I was!" By 1952, when...