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...spotlight, however, it was a different story. The CIA immediately fired off secret cables to its foreign stations, ordering intelligence officers to comb their sources for leads. Agents quietly began checking the Athens airport, where the TWA flight originated, for security breaches. The names of all the passengers who flew the Athens-to-New York City leg, as well as those who boarded the plane in New York, were traced through computerized data banks for links with terrorist groups. The Israeli, Jordanian and Egyptian intelligence services were asked to run checks as well. The CIA was casting...
...days a week but allowed her enough time to leave after her last class for weekend competitions in Europe. Even finishing school for the summer didn't free up much time for training or family--her husband Michael, a five-time Olympian, is her coach. In mid-June she flew to Iowa to present a paper in her area of research: games theory. "Fencing, actually, is a good application," she explains. "Fencers have to choose good strategies and try to influence the beliefs of their opponents." Even the stratagem of trying to make an Olympic team should be considered with...
When a baby gorilla named Cenzoo flew first class to Denver last April, it was no accident that reporters swarmed the tarmac to meet the plane. The Denver Zoo had trumpeted the airborne ape's arrival as part of a publicity blitz for the July 30 opening of its Primate Panorama, which will house 200 animals on seven nature-like acres. Denver isn't alone in putting its best paw forward to lure more visitors. Attendance at the nation's animal houses has posted meager gains of late, as rival amusements have drawn customers away. So zoos are stressing such...
...headquarters critical reports that were ignored. There is talk of a criminal investigation. And though the agency was concerned enough about ValuJet earlier this year to run a special review, it was not till after the crash--and a stepped-up, 30-day inspection revealing that planes repeatedly flew with known defects and the airline employed unqualified mechanics--that ValuJet planes were towed back to their hangars...
BONNIE ANGELO, who has written for TIME for more than 25 years, including eight as London bureau chief, returned to that city to interview the maverick chairman of Virgin, Richard Branson. She flew Virgin Atlantic Airways, naturally. She also drank Virgin Cola--for research purposes only--and hung out on Times Square at odd hours to see how the new Virgin megastore was doing. "To do a business story that's fun is such a marvelous experience," says Angelo, who was inducted last year into the Journalism Hall of Fame in her home state of North Carolina. "There...