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...Until now, news accounts have only featured government spokesmen or airline personnel who were not actually on the June 29 flight. But in an exclusive interview with TIME, the lead Federal Air Marshal who flew on Flight 327 tells what happened that day. "Bottom line," the FAM says, "there was never a time when my main partner or I felt there was an imminent threat to that airplane or the passengers...
...Miracle says one aim of the year of conferences, exhibitions, school activities and open days - smaller shows are being negotiated for cities ranging from Berlin, Rome and London to Shanghai and Philadephia - is to go beyond the postcard image of Gaudí's best-known work, the incomplete Sagrada Família cathedral. (Its latest guesstimated finishing date is 2030.) "Today Gaudí is more popular than known, and we want to change that," says Giralt-Miracle. "He had his feet on the ground, but his imagination in the infinite, arriving at a time - the turn of the 19th century...
...also been ambivalent. Architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner ignored him altogether in the 1936 edition of his seminal Pioneers of Modern Design. It was only after 1962 that Gaudí was admitted to its pages. George Orwell, in Barcelona during the Civil War, was more explicit, calling the Sagrada Família "one of the most hideous buildings in the world...
Many architects would say Orwell was talking through his hat. Le Corbusier described the school Gaudí designed as part of the Sagrada Família project - its roof an ingenious, wave-like structure - as "a masterpiece." Norman Foster has called Gaudí's methods revolutionary. Spain's best-known architect, Santiago Calatrava, shows Gaudí's influence in his use of trencadís (broken ceramic tiles) as decoration, his use of arches, and his primary source of inspiration - nature...
...enough to cover every one of the 30,000 daily flights in the U.S. "We'll have many more air marshals on flights," President Bush boasted last October. But many pilots, flight attendants and airline-operations personnel from carriers across the country tell Time they have never had a FAM on any of their flights. A Transportation Security Administration spokesman says virtually all information about the FAM program, including the budget, is classified and can't be discussed. But the agency has opened a second air-marshal training center. "FAMs will be a significant presence on flights," the spokesman said...