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Marine Lt. Ed Cunningham's warning was spot-on: "It will be like flying into a hornet's nest." As he and Capt. Bryan Willard piloted their large, CH-53 helicopter closer to New Orleans on Saturday, the sky was frenetically dotted with all types and sizes of choppers, bobbing and weaving like bumblebees in a barely controlled chaos amidst the smoke of fires burning along the Mississippi River below. They searched for Hurricane Katrina survivors in large venues like the Convention Center-where a lone military air traffic controller with the call sign "Superman 00" somehow directed the evacuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying With a New Orleans Rescue Crew | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...wants to return to a quieter time. McLennan County Commissioner Ray Meadows, who told TIME he was "mad as a hornet" when he first saw cars and tents spilling over the ditches on Prairie Chapel Road in what was to become Camp Casey, has called on his fellow commissioners to limit traffic and activity on seven miles of road around the Western White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crowd Control in Crawford | 8/24/2005 | See Source »

...sources say, was stunned by the June 30 Congressional resolution objecting to the merger. So was the Chinese government. One of Fu's advisers says Beijing, already sparring with Washington over the value of China's currency and U.S. quotas on Chinese-made textile imports, was not expecting a hornet's nest to be stirred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncharted Waters | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

JIMMY CARTER With his Revolutionary War book, The Hornet's Nest, Carter became the only President so far to try fiction--and admit it openly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hemingways Inside The Beltway | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

After their recent flour attack on Tony Blair, Fathers 4 Justice will combine their love of baking supplies with their love of superheros—scaling bridges as Spiderman, etc.—and take it up a notch. Yeah, we’re talking cupcakes, the Green Hornet and Prince Charles...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Predictions | 5/21/2004 | See Source »

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