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...dealing with pilots who have years and years of safely and gently flying along, and suddenly they have a mechanical failure or a severe-weather incident," says Lou Knotts, an ex--fighter pilot who is now a vice president at Veridian, a research company that trains military and civilian pilots. "We're trying to prepare them for those...
...Death Poll There was an upsurge of violence as elections in Indian-administered Kashmir concluded their third phase. The Indian Election Commission said voter turnout on Tuesday, in the third of four phases of the election, averaged 41%. But at least 15 people died on poll day, including nine civilians killed when suspected militants attacked a passenger bus in Kathua. In the following days, at least 22 more people were killed in separate incidents across the disputed territory. The dead included seven members of India's Border Security Force, whose jeep was blown up by a land mine. The election...
When Harvard Law School was debating whether to reverse its policy against military recruiting this summer, officials say the school’s administrators met with high-level civilian and military defense department officials and determined that the department would not back down...
Annenberg also enjoyed close ties to U.S. presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower onward. In 1969, Richard Nixon named Annenberg ambassador to the United Kingdom. Ronald and Nancy Reagan used to frequent his California estate. In 1986, Annenberg was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor...
FACTORIES AND HOMES Legitimate civilian projects such as a fertilizer plant can quickly and easily be diverted to produce material for chemical and biological weapons. Defectors say these are buried in residential basements...