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...conditioning is less important than caution and alertness. Patience helps, too. Before you can venture solo, you will need to undergo at least two to three days of rigorous training on the ground and in the air; you can also opt to just fly in tandem with a certified instructor. In Switzerland, where I do most of my gliding, expect to pay roughly $450 for three days of training and about $150 for flights thereafter. The prices include the rental of a glider and protective gear as well as instructors' guidance from the ground. To learn more about paragliding, visit...
...suspects Williams mentioned did have al-Qaeda links; one trained with Hanjour at an Arizona flight school. A thorough investigation of flight schools might have led to one in Florida where an instructor recalled the odd behavior of 9/11 pilots Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi or to a California outfit that expelled al-Hazmi and al-Midhar for lack of flight skills and poor English. Had Williams' memo been sent to all FBI field offices, it could have set off alarms at the Minneapolis field office when would-be pilot Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in August...
...more proper to rail at the method of instruction than the conduct of the student, or vice-versa, because either the one or the other is more flagrantly misfit. But in the long run no criticism of instruction is sound which does not also recognize that the formal instructor is responsible for very few of the personal aptitudes and aversions of the individual student; and no execration heaped upon the head of students is just without the knowledge that artless instruction can bar the progress of many an incipient aptitude...
...decided like other modernists to break the canous of the game that certain individuals might better display their originality. Hence the student body now faces not alone examinations which prove to the office that he has in a measure heeded the discourse and developed the hints of his instructor but those which show just how well he is able in torrid weather and with a mind fatigued from the monotony and length of the college year to do mental tricks for the edification of his faculty Examinations in English literature, for instance, are so arranged that the professor can eventually...
...perhaps a final examination is a chance to help the instructor with his future after dinner speeches, perhaps a game which the instructor so enjoys that he must be allowed to play it at the risk of crippling the humor of the undergraduates. Yet it seems only fair under the circumstances to allow the professor to change parts occasionally with the student. The student need not always he "it". And when sometimes due to the heat and the hatred of always losing out in whimsy the student suggests something of the nature of a recent report on Browning...