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...aircraft maintain shorter distances from each other, planes will be able to fly closer together. Blakey insists the planes will be at safe distances, but for air traffic controllers that's not enough. "We have 1100 fewer air traffic controllers working today than we did on Sept. 11," says Doug Church of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, a union currently in a labor dispute with the FAA. Air traffic controllers are already overworked, Church adds, and NextGen does not address the staffing issue...
...fighter escort if necessary. Burn the equipment, but get the soldiers out now. Dunkirk was a defeat for the Brits, but the spirit that emerged from the rescue operation galvanized them for ultimate victory. We might claim some of that spirit by rescuing our soldiers right away. Doug Dix, Bloomfield, Conn...
...know you also do sports photography, covering men's soccer. Will you continue to follow the U.S. men's team? -Doug Harner, LONG ISLAND, N.Y.I would like to, but it depends on my schedule. I am doing two shows now (The Price Is Right, Power of 10) and stand-up. When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games. But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride...
Like many great couplings, this one nearly didn't happen. Damon first played Bourne, loosely based on the Robert Ludlum character, for director Doug Liman in 2002's The Bourne Identity. That movie minted a gritty new kind of action film, but its nail-biting production left Universal Studios looking for a new director who could somehow combine edge and efficiency. At a 2003 meeting at the studio, writer Tony Gilroy suggested Greengrass. "There was a grunt of approval," remembers Damon, sitting across from Greengrass in a poolside cabana at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. "I was the one idiot...
...this," McCall explains. Instead, she and other leaders check in with the locals to see what the community needs, then dispatch volunteers to do the legwork. Voluntourism supporters are quick to point out indirect benefits too. "Americans don't have the best reputation in the world right now," says Doug Cutchins, director of social commitment at Grinnell College and co-author of Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others. "For Americans to get out and represent a different side of America ... I think that has a tremendously positive benefit...