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...mythical birthplace of the ancestor of the Korean people. Kim's mother died when he was a schoolboy. When the Korean War broke out during his father's rule, he was spirited off to the safety of Manchuria. In the 1960s Kim is believed to have trained as a pilot in East Germany. He returned to North Korea to serve as his father's factotum. Friends describe him as a calculating politician, a man who worked even to charm his father...
...Detroit suburb, a man walked onto a private plane and greeted the co-pilot with "Hi, Jack!" The salutation, picked up by a microphone and interpreted as "hijack," caused police, the county sheriff's SWAT team and the FBI to arrive at the scene...
...commanderless army and a watching world. And so it was when Hafez Assad died last week. Syrian state media trumpeted classical music and koranic verses--a TV prayer vigil for the 69-year-old dictator. The cameras captured weeping members of the Syrian parliament mourning the onetime air force pilot who had taken a poor nation of 17 million and made it, well, still poor but nevertheless a pivotal player in the Middle East...
...surgery that promised a video link to the optic nerves. (And once there, why not insist on full-channel cable and a Web browser?) The military's reasons for chip insertion would probably have something to do with what I suspect is the increasingly archaic job description of "fighter pilot," or with some other aspect of telepresent combat, in which weapons in the field are remotely controlled by distant operators. At least there's still a certain macho frisson to be had in the idea of embedding a tactical shard of glass in your head, and crazier things, really, have...
...Mills' Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies called for extending health care and job training benefits to virtually all University employees, including casual and sub-contracted workers who had previously been only spottily covered. They also asked Harvard to expand a pilot literacy program...