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...exchanges. Australian airline Qantas has concluded that in these perilous times the way to generate goodwill among nations is to have a movie star fly his own plane to cities like Paris and Hong Kong. Last week Qantas named John Travolta its "ambassador-at-large," announcing that he will pilot his wife and two kids on a 10-city "Spirit of Friendship" tour to, in the actor's words, "reach out, to cross borders, make contact" (and generate some publicity for Qantas). Travolta, who has a pilot's license, bought a Qantas Boeing 707 four years ago and lavishly redesigned...
...from the championship and replace it with a virtual one. Then fans will be able to enter a real-time rally on Virtual Spectator. They will be able to log in at the same time as the real drivers start and, using real weather and road conditions, pilot car No. 10 around the course in virtual competition with real drivers. Richards isn't phased by the difficulties to be overcome in bringing all the technology together. "When I see the progress we've made in the past couple of years," he says, "I'm not frightened by anything." Though sitting...
...Germany last week has just begun. But scrutiny is already focused on Skyguide, the Swiss air- traffic-control center responsible for the area where the planes crashed. Investigators want to determine whether factors at the center - the deactivation of a crucial warning system, the instructions issued to the Russian pilot less than 50 seconds before impact and Skyguide's sub-European-standard radar system - amount to negligence. Whatever the inquiry finds, notes Daniel Solon at the aviation consultancy Avmark, "this highlights the urgency for some integrated European system of control." Planes flying through Europe negotiate among more than 60 centers...
...main room, a bank of 14 video monitors displays scenes from 825 cameras arrayed around the airport. Mitch Greenberg, a former paramedic, was the man in the hot seat one recent Sunday, scanning the screens and barking into a microphone to deal with each security infraction-such as a pilot's setting off an alarm at a secure door when his ID badge is misread. For major incidents-big weather problems as well as security breaches-the action shifts to the room next door, where a swat team of airport personnel are summoned around a circular conference table whose centerpiece...
...very battle plans for the last world war, beginning with the massing of the Antichrist's armies in northern Israel and ending with Christ's ascent on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. Jenkins skillfully filters the outlines that LaHaye provides through the adventures of heroes Rayford Steele, a pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, who starts out Left Behind as a 30-year-old virgin and senior writer for TIME's fictional competitor Global Weekly. Their mission is to help nonbelievers accept Christ during the rise of the Antichrist. This ultimate villain does his best to kill as many...