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After separating the false alarms from the potential catastrophes, Spahr forwards his calculations to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for final trajectory projections before heading home to sneak in an hour of bird watching before dusk. Planetary demise three decades away isn’t worth losing sleep over...
...Trade Center bombing--and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the plot's masterminds. An accomplice of Yousef's, Abdul Hakim Murad, who learned to fly at a U.S. flight school, tells interrogators he and Yousef discussed a plan to fly a small plane packed with explosives or a hijacked jumbo jet into the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters or into other American targets...
Away on intersession, jet lag seemed a good reason to stay in the hostel our first night to play poker—on the condition that all of that night’s winnings go to the next night’s alcohol. You see, I told my self, gambling can be for a good cause.The excuses quickly became less valid: it’s a great way to kill an hour after dinner, or before heading to a movie. Finding a quarter in the street is one-twentieth of a buy-in; might as well chip in the other...
...Mary’s America is mapped out by the front lines of presidential primaries, by Sheratons and situation rooms. He can recite jet plane particulars, has the phone numbers of endless political operatives stored in his Blackberry, and still has the customized nametag from his first trip on Air Force One. But he hadn’t planned on going back on the political trail—until Dean...
...even if a passage to India isn't for the fainthearted, the country is fast becoming a hot spot for the jet set. A growing global awareness of Indian culture--thanks to offerings like Bend It Like Beckham, the writings of Jhumpa Lahiri and modish curry cuisine (not to mention Indian software and telephone expertise)--has raised the subcontinent's profile and put it firmly on the traveler's map. The number of foreign visitors to India last year rose 16.5%, to 2.75 million, and the World Travel & Tourism Council predicts India's tourism industry will grow by 7.9% over...