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Even more surprising, a U.S. warplane has never fallen into Iraqi hands because of a mechanical snafu. There's only one acknowledged instance in which a U.S. warplane lost power over Iraq and had to limp to safety. It happened on Nov. 10, 1997, when an oil line broke on Captain Erik Pettyjohn's F-16 while he was 30 miles inside northern Iraq. "I had visions of being a guest of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad," Pettyjohn told TIME last week. He saw himself being paraded through the Iraqi capital in manacles while his family watched the scene...
...Vickers Weekly Insider Report, reaches the same conclusion. He focuses on numbers of shares traded, not dollars. In the first part of June, his weekly ratio of shares sold by insiders to shares bought by them hit a 15-year high of 4.2 to 1 but has since fallen to about 1 to 1, a rare episode of parity last seen immediately following Sept. 11, 2001. When insiders buy more than they sell, as Coleman believes will be the case in coming weeks, the market becomes compelling. This buy signal was seen after the 1987 crash, the 1991 Gulf...
...killing grounds, Milosevic often successfully kept the focus on technicalities. A few months ago, when a prosecution witness described in detail the discovery of several murdered women at the bottom of a well with injuries to their pelvic areas suggesting rape, Milosevic blithely argued that the victims must have fallen and injured themselves. In caf?s from Belgrade to Bujanovac, a kind of collective amnesia is setting in. "Mass graves? People don't believe in mass graves any more," says Natasa Kandic, a human rights investigator who documented war crimes in Kosovo. "We haven't touched on our own responsibility." None...
...golf course has fairways greener than fresh limes. But according to the widely used Palmer monthly drought index, the region around Durango is suffering the worst drought in the U.S. In June the Missionary Ridge fire, northeast of town, burned 70,000 acres. Only 2.86 in. of rain have fallen all year. And Durango, which since 1877 has had first rights to the water that flows down the Florida River and the local Animas, can hold only a seven-day supply in its reservoir. So the city uses up most of its entitlement, consuming 6 million gal. of water...
...This project has more dazzling surfaces per square foot than any I've ever done," Rockwell says, although much of the territory was familiar ground to him. Trees are a recurring theme in Rockwell's work, as is every type of glass. (He collects kaleidoscopes.) He has fallen particularly hard for backlit glass, which he uses throughout the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. He likes to use familiar materials in new, more glamorous ways, weaving wood or using topiary hedges as interior walls...