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...count among their carry-ons video-production equipment--or 300-lb. bodyguards. Though the investigation into the crash of the plane carrying R.-and-B. star Aaliyah is not complete, one thing is becoming certain: the twin-engine Cessna 402B was too heavy to fly. With a maximum weight limit of 6,300 lbs. for takeoff, the loaded plane minus the passengers weighed in, officials estimate, at 5,495 lbs., leaving just 805 lbs. of capacity for the pilot and eight others. One of them, Aaliyah's bodyguard, Scott Gallin, weighed 300 lbs. Unless the others weighed less than...
...dais at a communist rally for the island's children. He also visited with Elian to congratulate him on completing first grade, and later inaugurated a museum in Cardenas to the struggle over Elian's fate. Few Cubans outside the politburo get that much face time with their Maximum Leader...
...Moscow is no longer a superpower, and certainly has few strategic cards to play. But President Putin is no slouch at playing Russia's limited hand to maximum diplomatic advantage. And while Moscow's experts don't believe the comprehensive missile defense scheme envisaged by President Bush is technologically feasible to the point of neutralizing even the "rogue" threat, let alone Russia's own nuclear deterrent, the Russians? skillful management of European concerns over treaties and a new arms race suggests they'll look to make maximum political and diplomatic gains from the controversy...
...Sweden, employees who lose their jobs are cocooned from many of the harsh realities of unemployment, at least initially. Jobless workers get 300 days of benefits, or about 14 months of five-day weeks, which can be extended to 600 days if some activity like vocational retraining is involved. Maximum unemployment pay has just been increased from $1,189 to nearly $1,400 a month. But benefits don't stop there for Masifi and his former colleagues. Ericsson designed a special severance formula that pays this group of dismissed workers up to a year's salary regardless of how long...
These are desperate times in Israel. Even though Israeli security officials in Jerusalem are on maximum alert - and have foiled a number of suicide bombing attempts in the past week - one terrorist, sent by Islamic Jihad, slipped through. And he managed to kill 17 Israelis and wound 70 more in a packed pizzeria. As news of the latest outrage broke, Palestinian security officials began hurriedly evacuating their premises, knowing that a fearsome Israeli retaliation is all but inevitable. The last vestiges of the cease-fire brokered by CIA chief George Tenet will probably have been laid to rest by dawn...