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America in its fuel crisis is like a 300-lb. man who eats four meals a day at McDonald's. Policymakers are deliberating over which exercise is the best path to weight loss. Instead, Americans should go on a diet of reduced energy consumption. We need to dramatically change our habits. JULIAN LAWSON New York City...
...Outside of playing on an Xbox in my family room, I had never piloted an airplane. And the B-1 is no ordinary plane, given its $300 million price tag and its unparalleled capabilities: Supersonic speed and a payload of 24 two-thousand-lb guided weapons in its three separate bomb bays. The bomber dropped a third of the powerful JDAMs used in the most recent Gulf War even though it flew only about one percent of the sorties. Quite a machine for my maiden flight...
...elements of an Iraqi artillery battalion south of Arbil, moving toward the city. With U.S. and Kurdish troops blocking the way, the Army officer radioed targeting information on his scope to Air Force air-traffic controllers. They sent B-52s packing a flurry of 2,000-lb. bombs to push the Iraqis 10 miles back down the road. Several U.S. officials who worked on coordinating air strikes for special-forces teams told TIME that often as little as 10 minutes elapsed between an initial call for help from the Kurdish-controlled areas of the north and the first bombs falling...
...stone floor, the geometric pattern on the empty chair next to Qusay, even some water damage on one of the walls. Saddam, she realized, was sitting in her living room. The next afternoon, acting on intelligence that Saddam had been spotted, an American B-1 dropped four 2,000-lb. bombs over a block of buildings just off 14th Ramadan Street, half a mile north of Yunis' home. Yunis doesn't know where Saddam was at the time of the attack, but like many Iraqis, she believes Saddam survived it and is still alive...
...APPROPRIATE INSURANCE If you move state-to-state, your belongings will be insured for 60¢ per lb. So if your 70-lb., $5,000 flat-screen TV gets smashed, you'll recoup all of $42. You'll be better off buying coverage through your home insurer. Industry experts say it's usually a better product. --With reporting by Jonah Freedman