Word: flown
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...verdict, Yakovlev said he was incredulous that Okhotin, who said he had flown into Moscow many times before, had not purposefully avoided the red corridor...
...will have an easy time pitching a quick return to space to the public, which continues to support space exploration by impressive margins. Safety is a harder sell, since NASA has been touting the shuttle system as safe since the very beginning, and superior to every other spacecraft ever flown. As one Congressional source put it, "If NASA goes with the capsule design, you'll hear a lot about our ability to return to the moon. This may take us there, but that's secondary. Safety is the number one issue. Safety is driving the design...
...verdict, Yakovlev said he was incredulous that Okhotin, who he had flown into Moscow many times before, had not purposefully avoided the red corridor...
...facility in the Middle East, first learned (but kept to itself) that a 25-year-old Saudi named Nawaf Alhazmi had links to Osama bin Laden? Or was it in March 2000, when the CIA heard from its spies overseas (but did not tell the FBI) that Alhazmi had flown to Los Angeles a few weeks before? Then there was the bungled meeting between the CIA and the FBI in June 2001, when the CIA hinted at Alhazmi's role but would not put everything it knew on the table. Washington may have had one more chance to change history...
...Cities that for reasons of politics or religion were once gloomily repressive--Madrid, say, or Dublin--now rock to the small hours. In Prague the foreign visitors who get talked about are not the earnest young Americans who flocked there in the early 1990s, but British partygoers who have flown in for the cheap beer and pretty girls. The place that British historian Mark Mazower once called the true dark continent--and from whose curdled soul the horrors of fascism and communism sprang--has become Europa ludens, a community at play...