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...Boeing 767 jumbo jet is fresh off the shop floor, a sleek $138 million model made to order for Continental Airlines. But its pilot on this test drive is a little rusty and nervously wipes a hand on his khakis as he glides in to land on runway 14L at the Moses Lake test facility southeast of Seattle. With the plane just 200 ft. off the ground, a crosswind hits, and the co-pilot warns, in that dead-calm tone they all seem to learn, "You're on the left side of the runway." The pilot slides the plane back...
Bethune's trip to Seattle to pick up the Boeing 767 is a poignant sign of the times: it is one of the last jumbo-jet deliveries Continental will take until the second half of 2003, with the remainder put on hold until demand picks up. Bethune does a few touch-and-go landings at Moses Lake to test the new jet, No. 271 in the nation's youngest fleet (average age: 5.2 years), but he gives up the pilot's seat after an air-traffic controller, not knowing who's at the controls, suggests the 767 fly a tighter...
...assemble and disagree with each other" rings, to Vidal, laughably hollow, since these words are coming from a man who, in Vidal's view, is doing more to damage the freedoms he purports to defend than Osama bin Laden could ever hope to do with a fleet of jumbo jets...
...typical salaryman now endures a daily allotment of petty humiliation. On his way to his dead-end job, he glances up to see a jumbo TV screen showing middle-aged men in boxer shorts dancing the parapara, a kind of disco line dance. After work, he steps around homeless men at the train station who once had stable jobs like his. If he seeks solace at his favorite izakaya, or pub, he may find ridicule in the form of oyaji gals, young women who get their kicks by dressing in wrinkled men's suits and doing salaryman impressions: swilling beer...
...They are currently under FBI surveillance. As if those missed signals weren't enough, last week it was also disclosed that in August, when the U.S. detained Zacarias Moussaoui--a man the French government knew was associated with Islamic extremists and who apparently wanted to learn to fly jumbo jets but not land them, and has since been charged with complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks--the FBI told nobody in the White House's Counterterrorism Security Group. But the CSG, which comes under the aegis of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, is supposed to coordinate the government's response...