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DUST PROBE: The FBI gave the detainee Zacarias Moussaoui a test for the anthrax vaccine. Result: negative. A would-be pilot, he was arrested last August with literature on crop dusters in his possession. He is being held as a material witness in the Sept. 11 case. TOWERING TARGETS: In 1999, Spanish police intercepted a van with more than a ton of explosives. Last week a captured Basque separatist said the target had been Madrid's 48-story Picasso Towers, designed by the World Trade Center architect...
...legs are three extra mesh-lined pockets for stashing everything from your cell phone to your PDA. One piece of advice: make sure you unload your cache before passing through airport metal detectors, or you'll be outed as a geek faster than you can say Palm Pilot...
Moshier's Solotrek XFV (short for Exo-Skeletor Flying Vehicle) has a comparable flight record: 8 in. above the ground for about 9 sec., according to the inventor. A former Navy combat pilot, Moshier has been working on his creation, at least in his mind, since he was a teenager in the 1960s, although officially his company, Millennium Jets, has been at it only six years. The look of his machine is pure sci-fi: an 8-ft. metal frame supports two gas-engine-powered fans, each 38 in. in diameter, that jut like oversize ears above the frame...
...India and settling down in his hometown of Calcutta. It is Joshi's witty fabrication of the future that lifts his work from the rash of century-spanning novels that have followed Gabriel Garcia M?rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Bhatt's daughter, for example, becomes a pilot for the Indian army and ends up battling a 21st century Pakistan-Saudi Arabian alliance...
...last checked earlier this month, although its last major overhaul was back in December of 1999. The safety of the wide-body A-300 jet was called into question several years ago after one plane crashed upon landing in Taiwan, leading to speculation about the craft's pilot automation systems...