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...seconds Length of the inaugural flight of a one-man, battery-powered aircraft in Tokyo last week, the first flight of its kind 160 Number of conventional AA batteries used to power the plane...
Although relieved, I had a sense of hopelessness and [I] found myself tearing up often. I was put on a 4 a.m. flight to London, [and I] arrived in Los Angeles today. My experience was heart wrenching. I feel like I have abandoned my family, and friends in Lebanon. A country that had so much hope looking far in to the future, [many] are now just wondering how they will get by from...
...darting look in his eyes, I think Ismael would go to great lengths (perhaps questionable ones) in order to have a spot on a boat to Cyprus. Many of the 100 or so other men milling around with him probably think the same. Theirs are tales of constant flight from one crisis to another. Ismael, for example, fled Darfur in Sudan to work in Iraq, until the Americans invaded and he fled to Syria, where he was arrested for entering the country illegally. For two months, his Syrian jailors beat him every day, he said, before releasing...
...touched down in Spain. Zapatero let it be known that he would not be attending Sunday's open-air mass that was the crowning moment of the Pope's visit. Zapatero's admirers will see it as a sign that the atheist leader is no hypocrite. But on the flight from Rome, when papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls was asked about the absence, he pointed out that on John Paul's visits, even Communist leaders Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega attended Catholic masses out of respect for the Pope. Not necessarily a knockout, but a glancing blow for sure...
...authorities and should not have to wear the bracelet. “He’s a Harvard graduate. He’s lived here his entire life,” Little said. “There’s no reason to believe he’s a flight risk.” Little could not be reached for comment yesterday. Plotkin concentrated in economics at Harvard and joined Goldman Sachs in the summer after his graduation. He was an active member of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team as an undergraduate, where he conducted workshops for younger members...