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Correspondent Aparisim Ghosh's unflinching diary of his days and nights in Baghdad proved eye-opening to readers. Scores wrote to thank Ghosh, many finding sobering contrast between how they lead their lives and how Ghosh, Baghdad citizens and coalition troops must cope during wartime...
...Green Airport in Providence, R.I., last year was so successful at reducing incursions that the agency is taking the program nationwide. The project made a new brighter, bigger centerline and increased the width of the yellow bars from 6 to 12 lines on a black background to increase the contrast on the "hold short" markings (where planes stop before entering the runway). The FAA has ordered that the same changes will be required at the nation's biggest 72 airports by June 30, 2008. The new markings will be optional at all other airports, but if they are used, they...
...been very different. The junior senator from Illinois, a man talked about as a future U.S. President, is a celebrity in his father's homeland. His visit has been front-page news for days, and at each stop crowds of hundreds, sometimes thousands, gather to cheer him, a stark contrast to South Africa, which he toured earlier in this trip and where most people have never heard the name Obama. After a ceremony to remember the more than 200 people who were killed during the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, a crowd on the street outside chanted...
...kids' time--bottom line, tennis in the U.S. is looking to Roger and Rafa. "We need something," says famed tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, sculptor of greats from Agassi to the Williams sisters to Maria Sharapova. "It's far too dry. And the common ingredient in all rivalries is the contrast, in styles of play or in personalities...
...think it goes through titles." But both players understand the benefits of a U.S. Open final that includes them. Nadal serves a sales pitch to Americans who might yawn at a matchup with no Yanks. He cites Sampras-Agassi, the rivalry on which he was reared, which resembles his contrast with Federer. "I am not American, I'm Spanish, and I was following that because there are special moments," he says, through an interpreter. "It doesn't matter what their nationality is. Those special moments must be followed by people." He and Federer might just create...