Word: flown
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...behalf of his humanitarian efforts, Bono has flown around the world and met with the likes of former President Bill Clinton, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Pope...
...standard eradication mission--dozens are flown every year--includes more than $100 million of American gear orbiting over hell and trying to make a difference. So far, the missions have had little impact on overall production. "People want it to be Desert Storm," says Bernard Aronson, the senior State Department official for Latin America during the first Bush Administration. "It's not. It is a long war of attrition. There is progress over time. We just need the political will to sustain the fight." And to swallow the hard realities of a slow war: a recent State Department report notes...
...sweet it may be. The Sonic Cruiser, as it is being called, will fly just shy of the speed of sound. It will fly farther (850 miles farther than the A380) and faster (saving one hour for every 3,000 miles flown) than today's aircraft while maintaining standard operating costs. All of a sudden, the A380 looked like an expectant mother next to Marion Jones. Who wants big if they can have legs like that...
...later, the capsule will rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station (ISS)--thus earning a place in the annals of space history. For aboard that Soyuz craft, along with two Russian cosmonauts, will be a 60-year-old American millionaire named Dennis Tito. Amateurs have flown in space before--including three U.S. congressmen, a Russian politician, a Japanese TV reporter and a Saudi prince--but Tito will be the first paying tourist...
...from the Song of Solomon that Reichl discovered in her confirmation Bible: "Comfort me with apples, for I am lovesick." The book luxuriates in her adulterous affair with her New West boss, Colman Andrews, who once greeted Reichl at an airport not with flowers but with fraises des bois flown in from France. "He kissed me and said, 'Close your eyes and open your mouth,'" Reichl writes. "I sniffed the air; it smelled like a cross between violets and berries, with just a touch of citrus. My mouth closed around something very small...the size of a little grape...