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...Reall warns the six-member team to be ready to bivouac overnight, as the Coast Guard pilots are on the verge of exhausting their flight hours. "It was wetlands that were isolated. It's now an island. There may not even be anywhere you can lay down," Reall says. The group packs sledgehammers, MREs and medical kits. They're ready in a jiffy, and then they wait. Talk turns to food. "You plan on eating alligator?" one team member asks Lt. Chuck Wagoner of the West Chester, Ohio, Fire Department, pointing at a huge knife hung on Wagoner's shoulder...
...Rarely has a disaster-in-the-making been so widely televised-or gracefully avoided-as last week's EMERGENCY LANDING of JetBlue flight 292, whose front landing gear became twisted just after taking off from Burbank, California, en route to New York. Pilot Scott Burke landed safely in Los Angeles by keeping the damaged nosewheel up as long as possible, before dropping it to the tarmac-sparking flames but nothing worse. "I am so glad we got that guy," said passenger Alexandra Jacobs. "I just want to give him a big wet smooch...
Chiu and freshman Chris Clayton made it as far as the semifinals in the Flight B doubles before pulling out, and both Clayton and Kumar had made it to the semifinals in the A2 singles backdraw...
Sophomore Ashwin Kumar and freshman Sasha Ermakov won the Flight A doubles as the No. 4 seed, and junior Scott Denenberg took advantage of a first-round bye to make a run all the way to the semifinals of the Flight B singles draw...
...rebel camp in Waat, they numbered fewer than a dozen; the rest had died from fighting, starvation, animal attacks and suicides. It was at this camp that Jal met Emma McCune, a British aid worker who took a shine to the boy, adopted him and smuggled him onto a flight to a new life in Nairobi. Three months later she died in a road accident. (Nicole Kidman is soon to play McCune in a biopic by director Tony Scott.) Ironically, with no gun to bolster his courage Jal found Nairobi a frightening place. Remembering how, in the worst hours...