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That admission has left America jittery: A deranged man on an American Airlines flight led to a emergency landing and fighter escort earlier this week; suspicious passengers at Logan Airport have forced multiple planes to return to the gate; bomb scares have caused evacuations around the country on a daily basis; even military surplus stores are struggling to stock enough outdated and ineffective gas masks...
...journalists - to the extent that soldiers ever deserve that label - and our mission in Egypt is to put a good-news weekly paper for the troops of "Operation Bright Star," an annual U.S.-led international training exercise in the muggy desert somewhere near Alexandria. But we're also an "escort" unit, which means our real job is to make sure that the civilian press doesn't write any more bad news about the Army than can be helped...
...president and CEO of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Hawk quickly mobilized a team of veterinarians, police officers and pet psychologists to escort pet owners through the dead zone to their former apartments. Wearing a green A.S.P.C.A. T shirt over his plaid shirt and chinos, Hawk listened to their stories and calmly vowed to help. He was on hand to reunite Leslie Long and Doug Murray with their two cats, which had survived for 48 hours on little more than toilet water. Their apartment was coated with several inches of filth, with only a trail...
...Navy, which already has three aircraft carriers and escort ships in or headed to the region, had a fourth put to sea on Friday. The USS Kitty Hawk left its port in Yokuska, Japan, for an undisclosed location, but clearly was positioned to play a role in the region if required...
...same, and yet very different. There are preachers like Graham whose gift is to grab hold of the hearts of the unchurched and launch them on a journey into faith. But it is one thing to inspire a moment of conversion; it is another to escort you, week after week, all the way home. The vast majority of preachers do their work in sanctuaries, not stadiums, before hundreds of listeners every week, not tens of thousands once a year. And for them, who are judged not only in the pulpit but also at the bedside, in the classroom...