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...nearly $300 million trying to get re-elected in 2004, but nothing he buys will come close, in sheer political capital, to what he deposited in his campaign bank last week: the perfect presidential photo op. The scene, of Bush's landing aboard an aircraft carrier in a Navy jet and then strutting across the deck outfitted in a jump suit, "will be the moment of George W. Bush's presidency," predicts Mike Deaver, the master imagemaker to Ronald Reagan...
...took no small amount of jostling to get there. Though the White House first insisted that Bush had to fly in a jet, rather than the customary helicopter, because the carrier would be hundreds of miles out to sea, that turned out not to be true: the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was just 39 miles from shore. (Still, Bush spent part of last Tuesday taking a water-emergency training course at the White House pool, in case he was forced to eject into the Pacific.) Then there was the carrier's position, which had to be tilted to obscure any view...
...wedding day used to mean one of two things: elopement or honeymoon. But today the lines between traditional wedding, elopement and honeymoon have blurred as more couples incorporate aspects of each into the big day. Destination weddings, or "weddingmoons"--in which couples invite their nearest and dearest to jet off to an island beach, accompany them abroad or gather at some other favorite place--have become so popular that an entire industry has arisen. Destination-wedding planners, custom-wedding packages offered by resorts and cruise lines, and dedicated websites providing links to long-distance services are now available to help...
...five-day tour of U.S. bases in Spain, Germany, Sicily and Bosnia. In March, Rudd visited Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base and, according to the Charleston Post and Courier, “got about as close as a civilian can get to an F/A-22 fighter jet.” Around the same time, Bodine went to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to visit with amputee soldiers who’d been hurt by landmines in Afghanistan and Bosnia...
...land of its birth--it is becoming clear that what is taking place in Asia threatens the entire world. Epidemiologists have long worried about a highly contagious, fatal disease that could spread quickly around the globe, and SARS might end up confirming their worst fears. Microbes can go wherever jet airliners do these days, so it is a very real possibility that the disease has not yet shown its full fury. "We don't know the reason that we've been lucky so far," says Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...