Word: choppered
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...last time, he ducked backstage, away from the waiting media and well-wishers, and boarded a helicopter, not unlike a head of state. Not unlike a certain head of state, in fact, who, asked a too penetrating question on the White House lawn, would cheerfully feign deafness from the chopper blades. His timing impeccable to the last, Carson flew off for Malibu and retirement--no longer the King of Late Night, perhaps, but its President for life, and now, in death...
From his seat aboard a U.S. Sierra helicopter, Airman Mike Stewart looks down on a cruel artifact from the tsunami. Surveying the ruins of Meulaboh in Aceh province, his chopper passes over an intact tower clock that hasn't moved since the earthquake struck. Stewart and his crew are on one of their six daily runs to deliver supplies to some of Indonesia's most remote villages--all part of Operation Unified Assistance, the largest U.S. military operation in Asia since Vietnam and the backbone of the global campaign to fend off hunger and disease among tsunami survivors. For combat...
Executive producer Anthony Zuiker gleefully surveys the set, complete with a Coast Guard helicopter thundering overhead and Coast Guard and N.Y.P.D. boats offshore. "They gave us a chopper and two cutters--no charge!" he says. "How cool is that...
...hands full. The Afghanistan mission, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), is trying to counter increased violence in the run-up to the Oct. 9 presidential election. Afghan President Hamid Karzai canceled a rally last week after a rocket was fired at his helicopter. The rocket missed, and his chopper flew back to Kabul. Nongovernmental organizations complain that NATO is too thin on the ground to provide security. "The NATO Secretary-General said the alliance was ready" for an Iraq mission, says a top French Defense Ministry official. "But between Kosovo and Afghanistan, we have plenty to do." Secretary-General...
...known as Indian Larry who was a legend among biking enthusiasts; of injuries he suffered while performing an impromptu stunt for fans in a parking lot; in Charlotte, N.C. Once a favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash and burn" lifestyle, Desmedt won attention for a chopper he built in 1996 and dubbed Grease Monkey...