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...central France, where, as a young man, he managed a nature reserve. At 30, he moved to Kenya with his wife, Anne, to study lions in the Masai Mara reserve. There, he produced the first of some 70 books of photographs and, working as a hot-air balloon pilot taking tourists on wildlife-observation flights, developed a love for the vertical perspective. "People seeing the exhibition can see that, from a bird's-eye view, the world is a beautiful place," he says. "Close up, it is clear there are serious problems - and these are powerfully illustrated by the stark...
...wonder, PTP took away another big prize, the Taiwan carrier Evergreen, earlier this year. "It isn't just about low cost," Sidek says. "You have to be up to global standards and have low cost as well. If a ship comes in and there's no pilot or the cranes break down, I'm finished. There are no excuses at this level...
...Mackey, though, is definitely not a cop you've seen on TV before. In the pilot of FX's astonishing The Shield (Tuesdays, 10 p.m.), he brutalized a suspect to find a kidnapped girl, then murdered a fellow Los Angeles cop who was about to rat on him and his antigang Strike Team for corruption. By this week's season finale, he has become the most memorable, divisive and hard-to-pin-down character of the TV season--and his series, a lesson in the difference between network and cable TV making...
...Boeing 767 jumbo jet is fresh off the shop floor, a sleek $138 million model made to order for Continental Airlines. But its pilot on this test drive is a little rusty and nervously wipes a hand on his khakis as he glides in to land on runway 14L at the Moses Lake test facility southeast of Seattle. With the plane just 200 ft. off the ground, a crosswind hits, and the co-pilot warns, in that dead-calm tone they all seem to learn, "You're on the left side of the runway." The pilot slides the plane back...
...until the second half of 2003, with the remainder put on hold until demand picks up. Bethune does a few touch-and-go landings at Moses Lake to test the new jet, No. 271 in the nation's youngest fleet (average age: 5.2 years), but he gives up the pilot's seat after an air-traffic controller, not knowing who's at the controls, suggests the 767 fly a tighter pattern to accommodate a military C-17 transport and a P-3 surveillance plane passing nearby. "Continental 9990, do you need to fly all your patterns that wide?" drawls...