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...more detailed picture and told the President and senior aides the bad news. Florida Governor Jeb Bush had been saying the state was looking good, and the Bush team had expected to be ahead in Ohio. But Kerry was leading everywhere. "I wanted to throw up," said an aide onboard. Bush was more philosophical: "Well, it is what it is," he told adviser Karen Hughes. On the ground in Arlington, Va., that afternoon, chief strategist Matthew Dowd was walking around Bush campaign headquarters looking like a "scientist whose formulas were all wrong," said a top Bush staff member. Dowd...
...force. Kerry's answer would dishearten some of his strongly antiwar supporters and make it seem as if he still could not find a consistent thread in his case against Bush. "We couldn't believe that he went for it," says White House communications director Dan Bartlett. Onboard Air Force One the President sat with Rove, Karen Hughes and Bartlett, his advisers almost giddy as they worked on new language for the President's remarks. Bartlett answered an email on his BlackBerry that asked if Kerry had given the campaign a gift. The communications director messaged back...
What's extraordinary about the scene is just how routine it has become for MedAire, the world's largest provider of onboard emergency medical assistance for ships and airlines. Founded in 1986 by former nurse Joan Sullivan Garrett, MedAire has grown from a tiny one-woman shop into a $17 million-in-sales company that is now listed on the Australian Stock Exchange after buying a company in Perth that operates Western-style medical clinics in Asia. MedAire, which is based in Tempe, Ariz., made the acquisition in an effort to grab a bigger slice of the estimated $1 billion...
According to MedLink, which is a 24hour operation, the most common onboard ailments are fainting, stomach upsets and respiratory problems. Some of the doctors' most important work, though, is building a crew's confidence. "Dealing with a patient at a distance isn't usually the problem," says Baron. "It's convincing the crew the passenger who isn't doing well isn't actually going...
...instructor went over some of the four types and 700 models of hand grenades. Another bomb specialist noted, "You guys are the only law-enforcement agents who have to move toward an explosive device rather than away from it." He explained how to place blankets and luggage around an onboard bomb so that if it goes off, the damage is limited. Another instructor underscored the sophistication of the enemy. "Look," he said, "al-Qaeda is a serious military organization that is very methodical. They are not going to launch an operation to fail...