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...mats and the bed was flattened bamboo draped with scraps of cloth. A black and white picture of him sat on the altar to the left of his bed, his image blurred by burning incense, his dark eyes staring out at my sister and me. He had a fat nose that looked like a chicken’s foot. His wide, prominent cheekbones rendered the shape of his face triangular. The resemblance was uncanny. Standing on these scratchy mats in this dank hut, I stared at Ông Ngoai through scented smoke and I could see my mother...
...time typing data into their flight-management systems rather than sharpening their stick-and-rudder skills. "Some pilots can get into situations that are so unnatural and frightening that they freeze," says Terry McVenes, deputy chairman of the pilots' union's safety committee. "For example, when the plane goes nose down, it takes a lot of physical strength--and absorbing about 3 Gs--to pull the plane out. If a pilot tries to pull as he's been trained, it's likely it will be too gentle. Then it's too late, and he can't save the plane...
...were flying east through the clear morning sky, easing the nose gently up toward 12,000 ft. above New Mexico. I was sitting in a Learjet's jump seat, wedged between two pilots with half a century of experience combined. There were no airplanes around for miles, and we were cruising smoothly along, as aviators say, "fat, dumb and happy." This is what flying today is supposed to be about--if you can make it through security...
...Flying the Learjet, even with it customized to feel like a 737, makes one realize just how little time a pilot has to react to a crisis. We tried rudder malfunctions, icing problems, wake turbulence and losing all hydraulic power. In one exercise, pilots are told to point the nose almost directly at the ground and then pull like hell out of the dive. Watching the ground get closer in the Learjet's large cockpit windows was frightening; it felt as if it took forever before we started to climb out. In an emergency, even the best pilots have only...
...Nice is shorthand for the European Union enlargement treaty the Irish government dearly wants voters to ratify this Saturday. (They already rejected it once, last year, thanks to a swirl of conflicting emotions: fear that it would undercut Irish neutrality and sovereignty; an urge to give a bloody nose to the government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.) If the Irish vote yes this time, 10 new countries, including the Czech Republic, will join the E.U. in little more than a year - a momentous result that the European Commission last week proudly confirmed was still on track. But if they vote...