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...faulty supervision. Even after 10 years of development, the early models suffer from fuel leaks, faulty wings and an inability to cross the Atlantic unrefueled with a full load of cargo. The program deserves to be scrapped, but the Air Force urgently needs replacements for its aging cargo fleet. The original order for 120 jets (price each: $380 million) may have to be cut in half because of skyrocketing costs...
...speed with which it moved from the computer-aided design screens and onto the launch pad -- the first stage of development took just 18 months -- shows how much was lost in the past two decades, a period in which the U.S. space program was all but stalled. The current fleet of American launch vehicles -- including the shuttle that balked on launch in mid-August and the Titan IV launcher that exploded in midair 11 days before that -- were built from blueprints drawn in the 1960s and '70s, a lifetime ago in terms of research into materials, semiconductors and computer design...
...lines. The Maryland Midland is one. Nestled in the hills below Camp David, the presidential retreat, it serves 34 customers who need coal and raw materials to turn out cement and lumber products. Paul Denton, 51, a refugee from the Baltimore & Ohio in Baltimore, Maryland, is president, commanding a fleet of 200 cars over 67 miles of track. From a tiny office in the quaint 1902 depot in Union Bridge, he listens to the comforting purr of his six locomotives prowling in the valley at 25 m.p.h. Small potatoes in the big picture. But last year the line grossed...
Witt has made four visits to the flood region and has swiftly provided victims with cash and other help, including a fleet of massive trucks that offer emergency communications, electrical power and water purification. Even FEMA's most vociferous congressional critic, Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, seems to have softened, saying of Witt, "He absolutely gets A's for effort." His midnight bus ride to Madison might indicate that he has a lot to learn about the high-powered ways of Washington. Then again, maybe Washington could learn a thing or two from James Lee Witt...
...budget, no-frills outfit started by former Salt Lake City, Utah, travel agent June Morris, the first female founder of an airline. Other newcomers include Kiwi International, a regional discounter that flies six cozy 727s out of Newark, New Jersey; Private Jet, an Atlanta-based charter service with a fleet of 12 big MD-80s; and Family Airlines of Las Vegas, a start-up backed by 65 former Pan Am pilots. An additional 26 applications from wannabe airlines are pending at the Department of Transportation, and about 14 of these could get off the ground this year...