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...over the past year doubled its number of helicopters based in Afghanistan to about 225, but troop numbers have risen even faster, making for a more acute chopper shortage. Helicopters are swift but delicate machines. The physics of flight make them inherently unstable, and therefore less reliable, than fixed-wing aircraft which generate their lift from stationary wings instead of egg-beater-like rotor blades. More critically, chopper pilots are commonly expected to fly in hot weather at high altitudes, where less-dense air offers them less control over their aircraft...
...moment of revulsion for some of the family members of those who died in the 1988 bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103: the only person convicted in the attack, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, being set free and receiving a hero's welcome on the tarmac in his native Libya. Now, two months after al-Megrahi's controversial release, Scottish police are diving back into the two-decade-old investigation in hopes of identifying the former Libyan intelligence officer's suspected accomplices - and providing some peace of mind to relatives of the 270 people killed in the attack...
...bombing to determine whether any government policies in place at the time were indirectly to blame for the attack. "Underpinning our request for this inquiry is our belief that unless we understand and acknowledge the complicated series of events that led to the decision to put a bomb on Flight 103, no lessons will be learned," Pamela Dix, whose brother Peter died in the bombing, wrote in a commentary in the Guardian newspaper on Monday. (Read "Lockerbie Bomber Returns to Cheers in Libya...
...point you missed: a key factor in "white flight" was government-forced busing in the early '70s. The local schools were the anchors that held together the neighborhoods for many of the young parents and kids of Detroit. It didn't make sense to walk your child to the corner to be bused across the city to another school. Fred Kuplicki, Fraser, Mich...
...Road to War Our first flight took us to a deserted stretch of Black Sea coast at Anaklia Bay. Saakashvili, who is sometimes swept away by his own optimism, met several leading Spanish architects on the beach to discuss developing a resort nearly 4 miles (6 km) long that would lead right up to the border with the breakaway republic of Abkhazia. The area may have natural potential - "The water's like boiled milk," an official told me approvingly - but Saakashvili seemed to be ignoring the obvious. If war breaks out again, the Russian army will rumble first through Anaklia...