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...main room, a bank of 14 video monitors displays scenes from 825 cameras arrayed around the airport. Mitch Greenberg, a former paramedic, was the man in the hot seat one recent Sunday, scanning the screens and barking into a microphone to deal with each security infraction--such as a pilot's setting off an alarm at a secure door when his ID badge is misread. For major incidents--big weather problems as well as security breaches--the action shifts to the room next door, where a SWAT team of airport personnel are summoned around a circular conference table whose centerpiece...
...Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, it is literally child's play. Doctors there are trying out a toy-like device called PediSedate for putting kids to sleep without anxiety. Meant for kids ages 3 to 9, the gadget looks like a big, plastic version of a pilot's headset--in a choice of blue or cranberry--with a snorkel attached. The contraption is connected to a Nintendo Game Boy or, for music lovers, a portable CD player. When it's time for surgery, the child dons the headset (instead of a scary face mask), and, while happily preoccupied...
...ARRESTED. MOHAMMAD NOUR AL-DIN SAFFI, 36, stepson of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, on immigration charges; in Miami. Saffi, who worked as a commercial pilot in New Zealand, where he is a citizen, had enrolled in a Florida flight school for recertification training. Immigration officials say he was traveling as a tourist and had not applied for the necessary student visa...
...There are even some newcomers, including the Scot-Indian Cameron. After living in Australia, Britain and Africa, he says he's finally found his home. Before arriving in McCluskieganj, his restless blood led him through a rainbow of identities, from Indian army captain to cocktail pianist, author to pilot, headmaster to racehorse breeder. Yet only in McCluskieganj, he says, among his fellow outsiders, is he truly himself. "Because I'm rather swarthy, people in England and Australia mistake me for an African or an Aboriginal," he says. "Nobody knows who you are or what you are. But here, in this...
...latest, Heathen, Bowie, who admits to "no yearning ambitions anymore," has re-enlisted producer/bassist Tony Visconti, his co-pilot through most of the golden years. And sure enough, Heathen is littered with spookily familiar echoes - of Space Oddity on Slip Away and Heroes on Slow Burn - that will put a smile of recognition on the face of 40-somethings everywhere. Cover versions of songs by The Pixies, Neil Young and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy sidestep nostalgia-creep but prove this is less a classic work, more a classy workout...