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...people died when an Avions de Transport regional plane, flown by American Eagle, crashed into a soybean field in Roselawn, Indiana. A design flaw made the French-Italian plane become violently uncontrollable in cold weather. Pilots and aeronautical engineers knew what the problem was: the de-icing boots on the ATR wings were not big enough. Those are the rubber sleeves on each wing that can be expanded to crack sheets of ice. But the FAA determined that lengthening the boot would cost too much money. It took three plane crashes, the third one scattering human remains and debris over...
...transition is familiar to Georges Malbrunot, a Paris correspondent for Le Figaro newspaper, who spent four months as a hostage in Iraq in 2004, before being released and flown back to Paris to intense media attention. "When you get out you have a euphoria. Everybody likes you. They introduce you around. You are a kind of saint," he tells me. "And then if you don't move on from being an 'ex-hostage' you can get into trouble." What strikes Malbrunot after watching hours of Betancourt's televised interviews this week is her quiet command of her extraordinary situation, which...
...because the Taliban controls the only road leading into Kajaki, all the equipment and all the labor have to be flown in by helicopter. John Shepherd, who manages the project for the Louis Berger Group, which was contracted by USAID, says he would be ready to push the start button today if it weren't for the security problems. His warehouse in Kabul is packed with hundreds of crates of equipment that have to be transported to Kajaki, along with some 300 tons of cement. It would take a convoy of trucks just a few days to bring the materials...
...five defendants will be asked to enter pleas as part of the arraignment, which is showcasing the Bush Administration's plan to try some 70 of the 270 detainees at Guantanamo by military commission. Sixty print and television reporters were flown to Cuba on a military plane to cover Thursday's arraignment. Strict rules are in effect to protect classified information divulged in the new, $12 million courtroom equipped with multiple television cameras, some of which feed video to outside observers, while others monitor the defendants for security reasons. No one in the court is armed, but burly uniformed guards...
...standing in the back room of the Hillary Clinton for President headquarters in Dubuque, Iowa with some volunteers and a field organizer, Elliot, who had been canvassing neighborhoods and knocking on doors for months. The Iowa caucuses were days away, and I had flown in with Institute of Politics Forum Director Bill White to help out with the final push...