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...flights each woman flew last fall were largely uneventful, but many passengers were scared and jittery. "Even if they didn't say anything, you could see it in their faces," says Moutardier. Others, Jones recalls, reacted to the attacks by being "really very respectful and cooperative." But as time passed, Jones says, "it went back to business as usual," with some passengers flouting the rules and behaving rudely. Attendants traded tips on how to distinguish potential terrorists from passengers with air rage...
...trading sessions proved useful on Dec. 22, when the two flight attendants boarded Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. Although both live in Florida, each holds French citizenship, speaks French fluently (Jones spent part of her childhood in Antibes, Peruvian-born Moutardier is married to a Frenchman) and flew the Paris route often. Flight 63 was jammed with 185 passengers that pre-Christmas Saturday morning. Baggage problems delayed takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport an hour, but everything seemed routine once the plane was airborne. Then a passenger aroused the flight attendants' curiosity. He was a "huge...
...haven't changed. When I go to ground zero now, I feel as shocked, angry and resolute as I did a year ago. On Sept. 14, 2001, I flew over the site in a helicopter with President George W. Bush and Governor George Pataki. I had been there many times during the three days after the attack, but that was the first time I had seen the smoking ruins from above. It was indescribably awful. A year has done nothing to erase these images from my mind...
Sullivan, who as a U.S. Navy Reserve captain flew on three space-shuttle missions, is president of the Center of Science & Industry in Columbus, Ohio www.cosi.org
...China's original Chairman, who was born in a Hunan village only a few hundred kilometers from Orange Island. Convinced that Chinese peasants could stuff their granaries if they would only grow more and more rice, Mao ordered peasant communes to "plant grain everywhere." In the 1950s, work brigades flew banners reading "Turn Waste Land to Great Land" as they drained the lakes along the Yangtze and its tributaries and seeded them with crops. Families settled on flood plains. The enormous Dongting Lake, once a valuable catch basin during years the Yangtze swelled with the melting snows of the Himalayas...