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...Basso, 30, plans to join their ranks. The owner of Advantage Payroll Services in Hicksville, N.Y., Basso has dreamed of piloting a plane ever since he was a kid. At a trade show last spring, he picked up an Air East Airways brochure advertising pilot lessons out of its hangar at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, just 15 minutes from his home. Since April, he's been taking flight lessons once or twice a week--early in the morning or in the late afternoon. He attends a 2 1/2-hour session on the ground and puts in about 10 hours a week...
There are far more hospitable places than the Red Cross refugee center in Sangatte, in northern France, a stinking hangar crammed with over 1,600 asylum seekers and surrounded by police and a high wire fence. But that's exactly where 99 Iraqi Kurd and Afghan migrants badly wanted to be last week. we want to go to Sangatte or to die, read one handmade banner held aloft by a group of young men who occupied the Calais Church of Saint Pierre-Saint Paul, about 8 km from Sangatte. Most had paid thousands of dollars to people smugglers...
...mile-range missiles still hidden. Under the terms of the cease-fire, Iraq was allowed to build only missiles that could fly no more than 93 miles. And during the 1998 U.S.-British air strikes, analysts caught a glimpse of previously unknown unmanned planes hidden in a bombed Iraqi hangar; they theorized that these were equipped with nozzles and tanks to spray deadly gases and toxins at low altitudes. The drones were jury-rigged clandestinely from Czech L-29 jet trainers legally bought years before...
...sent huge sections of the aircraft hurtling through the air. The so-called vertical tail fin - the vertical part of the tail with the distinctive 'AA' logo on it - was recovered from the water looking oddly clean and undamaged, looking as good as the day it left the hangar...
Today at Leavesden Studios, in a vast, drafty airplane hangar converted into makeshift soundstages, Diagon Alley is deserted. Hogwarts' magnificent staircase (partly constructed, then digitally finished onscreen) stands empty. But the lights will go on soon, as the sets will be recycled for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which is scheduled for release next year, with Columbus back at the helm. The entire Sorcerer's Stone cast will return for Chamber of Secrets, and just last week it was announced that Kenneth Branagh will join them in the role of the vain new defense against the dark-arts...