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...Although I accept the explanation that Bush decided not to renew his flight physical because he was no longer flying the jet on which he had trained, I think it is remarkable that he was able to make a decision that negatively affected his combat-readiness status. I served in the military, and I had no idea that I could have just opted out of required training or physical exams. Jack Slade Knoxville...
...Mohammed Abbas, had lived in the Iraqi capital under government protection in recent years, but was captured by U.S. forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Abbas?who learned his guerrilla tactics while fighting alongside the Viet Cong in the late 1960s?came to epitomize the jet-setting international terrorist, living in Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Lebanon while organizing attacks against Israeli targets. His group, the Palestine Liberation Front, has accused the U.S. of assassinating Abbas. The U.S. military says he died of a heart attack...
...when Steve Chesley, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, checked Spahr's calculations, he came up with a 1-in-4 probability of a strike. "It was a responsible analysis," says Chapman. "It wasn't mistaken in any obvious way." There was one hitch: the asteroid's projected trajectory was based on only four observations over a one-hour period, hardly enough to be definitive. It would take another look to nail down its path for sure...
...something you do, like, all the time. Game-play-wise, Ninja Gaiden is a neat combination of fighting and exploring, and although it's quite violent, the action is rendered in such lush detail--streaming sunlight, falling leaves, birds circling overhead--that it becomes almost balletic, like a Jet Li movie shot by Ang Lee. Ninja Gaiden is a tough game with a steep learning curve, but nobody ever said fighting evil was easy. Especially in a purple pantsuit. --By Lev Grossman
...collision. The July 2002 accident, involving a Russian charter jet and a DHL cargo plane, killed 71 people, the majority of whom were Russian schoolchildren. Friends Again GERMANY Frosty relations with the U.S. seemed to thaw as Chancellor Gerhard Schröder met U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House. While Schröder insisted that German troops would not go to Iraq , he also said Berlin will not stand in the way if NATO decides to send peacekeeping troops there, and will lead the way in forgiving part of Iraq's $120 billion foreign debt...