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...Flight 990's catastrophic end already threatened to turn the tragic air crash into a damaging collision between the U.S. and its best Arab ally in the Middle East. All crash investigations are extremely difficult, especially when most of the material evidence lies beneath 270 ft. of restless ocean. But this case has run smack into taut Middle East sensitivities. Egyptians and Muslims everywhere deeply resent the apparent assumption that any Islamic prayer automatically betokens an act of terror. So far, they charge, there is no other evidence to buttress a suicide theory...
...there was some mysterious emergency, the response from the cockpit is still baffling. According to the voice recording, a relief pilot identified as Gamil el-Batouti, who normally formed part of the "cruise crew" that spells the pilot and co-pilot during the long, dull hours of an ocean crossing, asked to begin his shift early, barely half an hour into the flight. The captain, 57-year-old veteran pilot Ahmed el-Habashi, agreed to let the highly experienced el-Batouti, 59, replace co-pilot Adel Anwar, 36, in the right-hand seat. The door heard to open indicated...
...apartment he owns in New York City to toast the ball drop. But this time, the 59-year-old retiree is instead heading to Yogaville, Va., for a two-day silent retreat. "This year had to be different," Rittmaster says. "It was either this or be in the ocean for a swim at midnight." Meanwhile, at midnight, south of downtown Los Angeles, LaRonda Calloway, 45, of Culver City, Calif., will attend a "watch service" at New Commandment Missionary Baptist Church--safely indoors in a city where partyers are known to fire guns in the air to start the year...
...PACIFIC OCEAN Double Take at The Date Line Cruise ships will cross the international date line at midnight--and double back to celebrate the millennium twice --$30,000 to $115,000 --More than 500 passengers...
Granted that most of us don't have such options to begin with, there's still a universal theme in Wyatt's choice: the yearning for home in a helter-skelter era. This has been a millennium spent on the road. Colonizations and immigrations. Expeditions to the ocean floor, the earth's roof, the poles and the moon. Forced diasporas for populations in Africa, North America, Europe and elsewhere. Journeys across oceans for wars and police actions, and trips home in body bags. Forays around southern capes in tall ships and across Eurasia in caravans. And just as this millennium...