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...will not be safe for unstealthy planes until Iraq's antiaircraft-missile batteries are destroyed. That assignment is in the hands of electronic-warfare planes like the Air Force's EF-111 Ravens and F-16CJs and the Navy's EA-6B Prowlers, which will fly in behind the F-117s. Their jammers blank out ground-based radar and computer screens, and some of them let fly with HARM missiles, which home in on and destroy radar installations, leaving antiaircraft missiles at the site blind and useless...
...were a "host family" to four au pairs in less than three years, all of them arranged by EF Au Pair, the same Cambridge, Mass., firm that the Eappens used. The spiky-haired one turned out to be our best, by far. She was warm and nurturing. But she disappointed us way too often. We chuckled at little things, like her sunbathing topless when no one was home (a neighbor reported). But it wasn't funny when we learned that she was handing our phone number and address to strangers at bars. Or when she stayed out until...
...expect too much? Were we unfair? I don't think so. When we finally hired a mature, full-time nanny, all these problems vanished. Why did we stay with EF Au Pair so long? The program costs a fraction of what a nanny charges, and the glitches didn't seem insurmountable. Besides, we really did want it to work. So what went wrong? It's clear to me now that there's a tremendous disconnect between au pairs and host families. Many au pairs are oblivious to the daily rigors that await them in tending to small children. Their main...
...much the EF Au Pair Agency paid for her defense...
...EF Au Pair, the firm which placed Woodward in the Eappen home, is also exposed to civil suits...