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...Officers responded to a report of a suspicious package left at City Sports. The object turned out to be a Camera case belonging to a film crew. The owners were located and the object was returned to them...
...pilots do, Marty and Marcot would have taken one last, careful look down the runway, looking for objects on it--anything from a stray airport truck to the dreaded flocks of birds, which have caused problems for pilots at Charles de Gaulle for years. Marty knew the delicately engineered supersonic engines on the Concorde are particularly vulnerable to what the aviation community calls FOD: foreign-object damage. A piece of stray garbage, or rubber from a blown aircraft tire, passing through a high-speed turbine can cause the engine to fail--or worse. That is why military personnel usually scour...
Posted August 1, 2000 12:15 a.m. ET There is nothing about Laura Bush that brings to mind that other political wife - the one whose name draws hisses from the generally well-mannered crowds here in Philadelphia and whose candidacy for the U.S. Senate is the object of convention-wide derision. Just as George W. Bush's campaign strategists take great pains to portray his vision for America as a 180-degree departure from that of Bill Clinton, Laura Bush's public image is a careful response to a widespread distaste (and for many at this week's GOP convention...
...anything bad about Sister Ping," he says. "People love her because she helps reunite families. Love is bigger than the law. You can't expect fathers not to see their children. In America the law comes first. To Chinese, families are more important," he explained. And money is no object if reunion is the result. "If someone died on the journey," says Wong, "she was famous for making a payment to the family and promising free passage for the next son. In China she was like a goddess. A snakehead with a heart...
...this is not exactly earth-shattering, given that the object of said speculation is essentially auditioning to become the nation's Funeral-goer-in-Chief. But this is what passes for news in the dog days of summer - and it involves the one man involved in the presidential campaign who has excited any real interest among the media. In fact, these past few moments of vice-presidential conjecture are the most fun we've had since McCain left the race in the spring...