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...While Jenkins was in Jakarta, Japanese officials became worried about complications from prostate surgery he had had in North Korea, and on July 18 he was flown to Tokyo. While in a hospital there, Jenkins announced that when he was well, he would turn himself in to the U.S. Army. On Sept. 11, Jenkins presented himself at the gates of Camp Zama, a U.S. Army base about an hour's drive from Tokyo. He approached Lieut. Colonel Paul Nigara, provost marshal of the U.S. Army Japan, briskly saluted and said, "Sir, I'm Sergeant Jenkins, and I'm reporting...
...Rutan's firm, Scaled Composites, delivers on time, Virgin Galactic will be up and running in 2007. Rutan knows that to sell tickets, he must make flights "at least a hundred times" safer than space travel has been so far. After all, 18 of the 430 humans who have flown into space died there. "You can't have an airline that kills 4% of its passengers," says Rutan...
...mine, genetically; it might actually have been my own, if my parents hadn’t managed to move out of Toledo the year I was born. Small Midwestern towns do not hold the exclusively anthropological interest for me that they do for many Harvard students, who have only flown over them, crossing from blue coast to blue coast. They are not alien to me. And reading the AP story about the overcounted ballots, I felt personally affronted: What had happened in Winesburg...
...haven't flown in the past 10 years. All the anxiety, the turbulence. I have...
Over the past year, delegations of American oil executives have flown regularly to the Essider terminal and to Waha's desert oil fields, trying to discern how to re-enter Libya. Under a 1986 standstill agreement, the fields are still partly the property of the American oil companies, though they have been operated by the Libyan government. Diplomats in Tripoli and Waha workers say negotiations have bogged down, with the American oil companies demanding a controlling stake in the operations, in return for investing billions. That prospect is met in the oil fields with a mixed response. "Before...