Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nabbed in Pakistan. During the transatlantic leg of the flight back to the U.S., Yousef had bragged that his original plan had been to plant enough explosives in one of the 110-story twin buildings to topple it, killing maybe 250,000 people in the tower and on the ground. But his shoestring operation couldn't afford enough dynamite, and settled for a much smaller blast...
...that hangs implausibly over the column-free middle floor, as if two halves of an Eskimo Pie were held apart by nothing. The box is supported by a huge spiral-stair-filled column outside and anchored on one side by a vestigial-looking tendon that plunges into the ground. On the middle story, floor-to-ceiling windows slide away on hidden tracks to make the room disappear almost entirely. If that's not complex enough, there's a three-story-high bookcase, and the porthole-like windows of the bedrooms are angled to illuminate certain places. Absurd, wonderful, revolutionary...
...aviator before, during and after his transcendent triumph. The later life proves especially poignant, not only because of his child's murder. Lindbergh came to dislike commercial aviation and was accused of pro-Nazi sympathies. A hero who flew so high became a troubled human back on the ground...
...obtained permission to overfly southern China, but had to change course to avoid Iraq (for obvious reasons) and a storm over the weekend; they are now over the Himalayas, with no landing options in sight, and striving to to steer their craft southward. Meanwhile, their liaison on the ground -- along with the British government and former prime minister Edward Heath -- continues to make appeals to the Chinese. It's par for a rough course: Over the weekend, Libya gave the flight a last-minute reprieve after suddenly withdrawing permission. The hot-air balloon took off from Marrakech, Morocco, on Friday...
...Meanwhile, says Thompson, Iraqi warplanes haven't budged, and ground installations haven't fired a single surface-to-air missile at their assailants. "Saddam knows from eight years ago that whatever he uses, he'll lose," he says. "He seems determined to curl up in a little ball until this is over." That end might come by Sunday. Then again, it might...