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Soldiers talk about rampant confusion amid mud and blood on the battlefield, but the picture is not always that much clearer thousands of feet above the fray. Sometimes, even when everything aboard a $50 million fighter jet works perfectly, the stresses of combat, accumulating slowly and insidiously, can overcome the world's best pilots. That's what happened on July 18 over eastern Afghanistan, when two Air Force officers stumbled into a series of missed signals and blown procedures. The errors combined to send their F-15E screaming into a dark mountainside in a steep, controlled dive at 550 m.p.h...
...mistakenly cited the elevation of their home base at Bagram - 4,800 ft. - as the elevation for the lake bed. That mistake apparently happened because Bagram's altitude had remained on the screen momentarily as he vainly sought to ascertain the lake bed's true elevation - 10,200 ft. Even though both planes had the correct altitude displayed on multiple displays, the four officers calibrated their strafing runs based on the erroneous lower number. (Watch a slideshow of the war in Afghanistan...
...take care of the poor," she points out. "We had 250,000 patient visits last year in this one clinic. We'll have even more this year. We have staff people who speak Vietnamese, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese and English. Many of the people we see are uninsured. The costs are enormous. That's why I'm a fiscal conservative. Working here, I have...
...frankly, he is trapped in a political tight spot, wedged between sky-high unemployment and lingering public worries over government spending. Almost 10 months after signing the $787 billion stimulus, the largest such federal program in U.S. history, he announced on Tuesday that the Federal Government needed to spend even more, a prospect that polls poorly, as concern about spending and the budget deficit continue to fester...
...briefing call with reporters before the speech, a senior Administration official said that even though the unspent and returned TARP funds could not be used directly to fund the new stimulus efforts, they still created an environment in which there was "more fiscal room" for further spending. "There's other offsets over a 10-year period that one could consider as well," the official said, without providing any specifics...