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...Average salary of an American Airlines pilot...
...Imagine my disappointment. I had found the new 'It' pen: the Rebecca Moss Sport Pen. She gushed with ink as liberally as my trusty fine-tipped Pilot Precise V7 Rolling Ball, but Rebecca offered me something new-an upgrade in styling, heft and refillability. She had everything I wanted. The pen came packaged in a space-age pod container with sound-proofing foam to cradle the instrument. Inside: a pen with an elegant, athletic look. A masterpiece of German engineering, the pen's blue plastic housing had a smooth sandpaper tactility. I thought I had found love at first write...
...failed to win much political support over its plight. "The 'no-fly' zones aren't actually sanctioned by the U.N. -- they're unilaterally imposed by Britain and the U.S.," says Thompson. "But nobody's in a hurry to defend Iraq." Of course, all that could change with a downed pilot or a stray missile inflicting heavy civilian casualties...
Critics of the U.S. military on both sides of the Atlantic are focusing their attention on Camp Lejeune, N.C., as the first court-martial gets under way for the ski gondola accident that killed 20 last year in Italy. Captain Richard Ashby, the pilot of the Marine plane that sliced the gondola's supporting cables, faces 20 counts of involuntary manslaughter that could put him in prison for life. The case is highly charged, not only because of the gruesomeness of the incident, but also because it has awakened the latent political resentment many Italians harbor against the U.S. military...
...defense will strongly argue that the ski lift cable was not marked on maps, while prosecutors will maintain that the pilot was obligated to fly at a minimum of 1,000 feet and the cable was hung at about 370 feet. "The prosecution's argument will be that yardsticks don't lie," says Thompson. Whatever the trial's outcome, many of Ashby's colleagues have already weighed the matter in their minds, and their judgment does not bode well for the pilot. "Many other Marine pilots have been angered by the accident and have concluded the crew was hot-dogging...