Word: fighters
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...those who experienced the bombing has largely been relegated to fireside tales, memoirs, and fictional accounts. A new book by Berlin historian Jörg Friedrich, Der Brand (The Conflagration, Propyläen; 592 pages) now brings to life the horror of those nights when British and American fighter planes dropped half a million bombs on some 1,000 towns and cities, killing 635,000 people. "I wanted to show what happens when the bomb hits the ground," Friedrich told Time about his collage of eyewitness and later reports. "Not what happens until it is dropped." Riveting passages such...
...joined GE in 1978 and soon went to the Aircraft Engines division. It was a great fit. Her father was a navigator, and one of her brothers is a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force. She credits her parents with encouraging her love of math and science. Growing up with a sister and three brothers in Worcester, Mass., also prepared her for GE's famously intense managers. "My brothers would push me hard, Mellor says. "I had to hold...
...with him. He shuffled slowly into an elegant reception room at his official residence and proffered a hand that felt too soft, the skin papery thin and blotched with liver spots. His clothes hung loosely on his frame. Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised that the feisty democracy fighter who had once faced down South Korea's generals looked ready to turn in his sword. After all, his official birthday has him turning 77. (His friends say he is closer to 80.) As we settled down to chat, Kim suggested I remove my jacket given the warmth...
...20th century. Despite the glory he has won in the ring, Klitschko is quick to stress that boxing is "only a small part of my life." And he is eager to knock down one of the boxing world's most enduring clichés: that of the dim-witted fighter. "Why does everyone think boxers are stupid?" he asks. Well, maybe because of events like last week's press conference by former wbc title-holder Mike Tyson, who announced that he's ready to return to the ring and is "tired of being stupid." But the Klitschko brothers break that...
...Saddam's ack-ack gunners succeeds - improbably, after more than five years of trying - in shooting down a coalition plane, the Iraqi leader is in real trouble. The legal niceties of the status of the "no-fly" zone might evaporate quickly in the face of a downed fighter, which could easily be taken by Washington as sufficient provocation for war. But failing that, much now hinges on how Saddam responds to the UN inspectors, and on what information they turn...