Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shooting for a pilot slot," he says...
...definition of "firearms" is so broad that by year's end the military may have to bar those convicted of familial violence from operating weapons like M-1 tanks, F-16 jet fighters and MX missiles, among others. And nothing is simple at the Pentagon: military pilots, after all, must carry sidearms to protect themselves and their planes when flying into trouble spots. So even if an F-16 is not deemed a "firearm" under the final policy, a pilot convicted of domestic abuse could no longer carry the requisite 9-mm pistol--and thus could no longer...
...kala-azar and tuberculosis. TB is a special problem today because kala-azar has so weakened the Nuer's immune system that any subsequent infection is often fatal. In August, McHarg dispatched Seaman to Ethiopia to survey a new outbreak of kala-azar. Seaman is also working on a pilot project to try out a drug for kala-azar that will cost a tenth the price of Pentostam...
...really the work with patients that captures her. This summer she set up a camp in Manajang, Sudan, where the airstrip was so overgrown that the pilot was terrified of landing. In control once again, she seemed back in her element. There was no one to hold her back from healing the sick. On a recent night at around 10, a loud, flailing sound erupted outside Seaman's tent. A mother was desperately trying to revive her eight-year-old son, who was in a critical stage of cerebral malaria. As he slipped in and out of consciousness, his mother...
...depends entirely on the author's familiar tone of weary bemusement, at times attributed to Kilgore Trout, the fictional writer who has been Vonnegut's unaltered ego in previous novels. The connection between fiction and fact is readily apparent. Trout spends the rerun rewriting My Ten Years on Automatic Pilot. Vonnegut, who took nearly a decade to complete his aborted book, works through that same material again...