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That's just the start. A sprawling $200 million airport is being built on the existing grounds and is scheduled to open next year. Its three-mile runway will be wide enough to land the new Airbus 380--or, for that matter, the space shuttle, boasts Zaid Zwain, Kurdistan's director of civil aviation. "Imagine, people used to fear the sound of jets because of the bombing," he says, standing on the vast, still unpaved runway...
...Sunday morning, the deputy was greeted at the ranch?s main gate by the Secret Service and Border Patrol, who searched him and then accompanied him a mile down the road to the main house. The Vice President, says San Miguel, shook his hand and promised to cooperate as they sat down to talk. Cheney, he says in the report, confirmed that he was part of a three-car hunting party consisting of himself, Harry Whittington, Ambassador Willeford, the two Armstrong women, and a three-man hunt team...
...going to complain about the environment, you're not going to start with chocolate," she says. Of course, not everyone finds the sweet smell so enticing. Laura Jacobson, 22, who works about a mile east of the factory, says the chocolate odor can be foul in summer, when temperatures rise and "it mixes with the river smell. Ugh. It's nauseating," she groans...
...with authority in his trademark "backseat" style, piling over the two bumps in the upper part of the Sestriere Colle slalom run. At the end of the run, Miller had a .97 second lead on Raich heading into the second run. In other words, he was winning by a mile. Raich, perhaps the best skier in the world right now, would need a miracle to catch him. Or a race official's ruling. No problem, says Miller, "At least I don't have to go all the way down to Torino tomorrow" for the medal...
...mile from the minister’s lush residence, thousands of ‘free’ Zimbabweans experience another form of violence. Still living in plastic tents after having been forcibly evicted from their homes by a nation-wide “Clean Up” campaign last year, they silence their criticisms of government for fear of further reprisals. One of the police officers who guards the camp might privately sympathize with the displaced, but has five children of his own and earns three million Zimbabwean dollars per month, about $30 US. School fees and rent consume...