Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That training will be something of a new experience for Glenn, who is used to being the captain of any ship he flies. The flight plan for the October mission lists seven Discovery crew members, from Curt Brown, the commander, to Steve Lindsey, the pilot, through three mission specialists and two payload specialists. Glenn's is the last name on the list. No sooner did the crew first meet last January than Glenn made it clear that the chain of command was fine with him. "They wanted to call me Senator, and I said no," he says. "I'm coming...
...decades now, technologists have conjured futuristic visions of the "smart home," whose every appliance leaps to attention at your command: finding and dialing the number you request, diagnosing that ping in your car, displaying the recipe you choose, deciding which ingredients you're missing and ordering them for instant delivery from the grocer. What's more, each machine would borrow the computing power it needs on a moment-to-moment basis by accessing a wider network via wireless signal, without the annoyance of the endless peripherals yoked to today's desktop...
...record source was the platoon's second-in-command, former Lieut. Robert Van Buskirk. He said he had seen two American defectors, vividly described killing one of them and seemed to confirm that nerve gas was used. His assertion about defectors, however, was based on a "recovered memory" that occurred while being interviewed by CNN. In his own book on Tailwind, he had not made this charge. Both in his early interviews with CNN and in statements he made after the story ran, he was ambiguous about whether the "Caucasians" he recalled were American defectors or Russian advisers...
...Bishop flew one of the planes that dropped the gas that day. "They briefed it was tear gas--CBU-30, they called it," he says. Eugene McCarley, the mission commander, agrees. "My eyes burned slightly, and maybe a little bit difficult to breathe, but not so it should have rendered anyone ineffective," he says. "We did not use lethal gas, and we did not kill any defectors, men, women or children." John Plaster, who served in the Studies and Observation Group during Tailwind, says, "Nerve agent never was used, and it was not available on call even...
...stock-market crash or a strike of rollerblading dog walkers--threaten New York, the mayor would inch through traffic, clamber up 22 flights of steps (can't trust elevators in a crisis--they might be booby-trapped!), pausing only to sign autographs for tourists, and soon be in command of all municipal defense forces as well as a secure phone line to the President of the U.S. (By the way, the only reason this project was kept secret is because, as the mayor has noted, "you would get people killed if you discussed it widely...