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...coaches through helmets with telecommunications links that have fidelity and security better than that used by Iraqi commanders during their recent loss to team America. The way things are going, future quarterbacks will have heads-up, intelligent displays that give them real-time interpretation of defensive sets, much like fighter pilots have today...
John Kerry has proven himself a dogged fighter, not just in his recent come-from-behind victory in Iowa—which illustrated his broad appeal to voters in America’s heartland—but also in his legislative record. The four-term senator has nearly single-handedly kept the nation’s environmental health on the radar screen—long before issues like the Atlantic National Wildlife Refuge were fashionable causes. And he is the only candidate with the foresight and expertise to put forth a comprehensive plan for energy independence from foreign...
...Airways Flight 223--but only after it was on its way to Washington. Between 80 and 90 passenger names were then singled out for scrutiny because they matched or were similar to those on various watch lists, FBI officials tell TIME. As customs analysts frantically researched passenger backgrounds, U.S. fighter jets tailed the plane, intending to shoot it down if a suicide hijacker took control. After being held and questioned for several hours on a distant tarmac at Dulles International Airport, all 247 passen gers were cleared. --By Sally B. Donnelly, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon
...government allocates money to train them or send them to college. In the end, it is baffling that AmeriCorps did not receive the pending increases in funding a year ago. A whole generation could be lifted into the middle class, if only we are willing to invest a few fighter jets’ worth of money...
...week and a half, starting on Christmas Eve. It was a strange period of aviation lottery that may become more commonplace as authorities continue to hunt, with imperfect information, for would-be al-Qaeda hijackers. All told, at least 27 flights were canceled, detained, rerouted or tailed by fighter jets--ready, as a last resort, to shoot down the planes should they deviate from their courses. We may never know whether an attack was prevented. What is clear is that U.S. officials had gathered what they believed to be extremely disturbing intelligence; equally clear is that their ability to confirm...