Word: jetted
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...test flight over Maryland last week, the Pentagon's F-35 jet fighter landed vertically for the first time - like a helicopter - as it was vaunted to do. But at just about the same time, its price tag was climbing in the other direction. A Swiss Army knife of the skies, it's designed for vertical takeoff and landing to please the Marines and their smaller ships, while more conventional versions are slated to satisfy the demands of the Air Force and Navy. All of a sudden, however, the F-35 is in big trouble. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert...
...people that the general population strives to be," she says. "They're supposed to live these fantasy lives and be doing all the stuff we wish we could be doing." So when Nick Jonas tweets that he had an "exciting day," it must be exciting enough to involve a jet pack, a pony and a bucket of money, right...
Where once we were afforded lag time to process all that we hear and see, life and its fast pace now facilitate our misjudgments. Although it is easy to make assumptions and then move on as life speeds past on a jet stream, an awareness of our tendencies and a brief pause before we categorize could make the difference between a desolate child and a family’s little princess...
...waves travel at roughly the speed of a passenger jet, but because of the vast distance they are traveling across the Pacific from Chile's coast, vulnerable islands hours to prepare. That wasn't the case during the 2004 tsunami, which rippled across the much smaller Indian Ocean basin before there was time to raise a proper warning...
Last August's return of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who was convicted of murdering 270 people (including 189 Americans) when a Pan Am jet exploded over Scotland in 1988, didn't help. A Scottish judge freed al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds, saying he was almost certain to die of cancer within three months. Saturday marked the six-month anniversary of al-Megrahi's homecoming, which unleashed huge rejoicing among Libyans and condemnation from Washington. A U.S. trade mission was slated for last November but was scrapped when White House officials intervened, saying the feelings over...