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...YORK: If two F-16's hadn't on Wednesday come so close to a civilian plane that collision alarms went off, news that four National Guard fighter jets passed close to another commercial flight would have barely registered on the media radar screen. But the planes did, and for the second day in a row, Pentagon officials found themselves explaining a miss that, while not nearly as close a call at the first one, has raised concerns about the safety in the airspace between New York and Washington, D.C. As an investigation into Wednesday's incident continues, Pentagon officials...
...college, since he wanted to start a business instead. His father remembers watching in frustration as his son studied and studied but got nowhere with his grades. Ennis managed to enter Morehouse College in Atlanta, but he continued to struggle with his schoolwork. His mother Camille told Jet magazine in 1992, "We didn't know that Ennis was dyslexic until he went to college...
Today we live in the shadow of AIDS--the terrifyingly modern epidemic that travels by jet and zeros in on the body's own disease-fighting immune system. More than 15 years after the first rumors of "gay plague" spread through the bathhouses of New York City and San Francisco, nearly 30 million people--gays and straights alike--have been infected by HIV, the virus that causes what has been, until now, an almost invariably fatal disease...
...Mirjana Markovic (Ph.D. in sociology) is easy to mock in effigy. Dowdy but vain, she dyes her hair jet black and often tucks a single plastic flower in it. No one is allowed to imitate the style in her presence. Indeed, no one is allowed to see her brush her hair, not even the President. He once walked in while she was grooming, and she began to weep. She also wept as a teenager whenever she did not get the highest marks in class. She was obsessed with Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, who mourned for a slain brother...
Casey Singleton works for Norton Aircraft in California. When an accident occurs on a Norton jet, it's her job to figure out what went wrong, aided by a gruff, profane but lovable band of engineers. She is up against corporate intriguers, angry union members and Jennifer Malone, a young, cynical producer for Newsline, a TV newsmagazine. Crichton has done a lot of research into the construction and testing of aircraft, and the detail on this subject is the most impressive part of the book. He plays fair with the mystery; the characters adequately fulfill their roles of heroes...