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...Florida rather than back home. W. followed his father step for step. "He is always anxious to please his father," one of the President's oldest and closest counselors said a few years ago, "and he has done it by emulation. He went to Yale. He was a combat pilot. He went into the oil business in Midland. He ran for Congress. In his way, he tried to relive segments of his father's life...
...engine was acting up. He didn't need the engine's thrust reversers--which are used to slow the plane on landing--during takeoff, but Marty had ordered them repaired just before leaving the gate. The engine, on the left side, would bear watching. Marty and his co-pilot, Jean Marcot, and the flight engineer ran through the normal takeoff checklist--engine power, hydraulics, radios--as they taxied onto the runway, setting the plane's iconic needle nose straight down the center line...
...that developed countries could do more to subsidize the cost of drugs was given impetus by a study reported in Durban last week. Such aid has been dismissed in part on the grounds that patients on these medicines need more monitoring than local health officials can possibly provide. But pilot projects in Ivory Coast, Senegal and Uganda have proved that even poor patients can stick reasonably well to a regimen without constant supervision...
...Manhattan, AZ, the sitcom that follows it (not created by the P&P guys), is gutsier and more promising. It's also about a life change: this time a married undercover L.A. cop becomes a widowed small-town sheriff. Like The War Next Door, it's plenty weird. The pilot's best joke comes midway through, when the main character says he's noticed that his son has changed since his mother died--and the camera pans to show that the kid is now played by a new actor. It's got some smart jokes and sharp ideas, but, again...
...public stock offering on May 30 to fund the building of an 853-ft. colossus--49 ft. longer than the ill-fated Hindenburg. "I've been watching the airship industry for 15 years, and now it's getting very exciting," says Christian Schulthess, who for 20 years was a pilot with Balair-CTA, the charter subsidiary of Swissair. He is now president of Skyship Cruises in Switzerland, which ordered the first Zeppelin. "CargoLifter and Rigid Airship Design get your imagination going," he says, "and here the Zeppelins are really flying...