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John tugged the sleeve of the pilot from the rebel Northern Alliance, who was aboard to guide the aircraft through the treacherous mountains of northeastern Afghanistan. "They're not ours," the Afghan shouted, letting John know that the helicopter could be fired on from below. The Taliban fighters, however, were so stunned by the appearance of the beastly aircraft roaring above them that they did not have time to shoulder their weapons and shoot before it flew out of range. "Wonderful," the CIA officer shouted to his Afghan comrade...
...boon companion Perelman made an oddly complementary couple. Their mutual friend Philip Hamburger of The New Yorker recalled that "Sid would go into depression, and then he would become very excited. And I've never seen Al go very far off course. He's a pretty steady pilot." He had to be, considering that he and Mood-swing Sid spent nine months circling the globe for the series of Holiday magazine articles that became the book "Westward, Ha!" Perelman, in a paean to his pal, described Hirschfeld as "a pair of liquid brown eyes, delicately rimmed...
...boring job is causing morale problems. In response, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is about to take some agents off airplanes and reassign them to surveillance duty in airport terminals. The land-based FAMs will watch out for suspicious behavior and enter their observations into a specially configured Palm Pilot linked to a TSA database. The FAMs will be authorized to detain or arrest suspects. The TSA will not disclose which airports will be watched, but sources say Chicago's O'Hare will be one of the first...
Your article on CEO pilots mentions the high cost of training and of renting a small plane, but there are much greater costs. I have had four colleagues who, along with their families, perished in crashes. By comparison, I have lost one friend in a car crash and none via commercial flights. All four of my pilot friends were qualified for night and bad-weather flights. Like J.F.K. Jr., too many small-craft pilots don't fly often enough to stay sharp, or they take off, bad weather or not, because plans were made and time is short. Give...
...your daughter isn't sure whether she wants to be a pediatrician or a pilot? Take her out to play--role-play, that is. Laresgoiti, a former toy distributor, is partnering with Mexico City--based Grupo Magico Internacional, an amusement-park operator, to build Wannado, a $50 million children's career theme center set to open in Sunrise, Fla., in the spring of 2004. For $15 to $20, kids can play doctor--and cruise-ship captain, archaeologist and dozens of other roles--in lifelike surroundings with adult actors. Wannado will be modeled after a hit Mexico City operation that Laresgoiti...