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...lines between the Afghanistan at war and the Afghanistan at peace alter daily. Cities accessible by road today may only be reached by plane - or not at all - tomorrow. And so follow the boundaries of the nation's tiny tourism industry. The few foreign tourists who come to Afghanistan, estimated to number under a thousand yearly, need plenty of help to pull off their holidays safely. In cities like Kabul, Herat, Faizabad and Mazar-i-Sharif, a small legion of Afghans who spent the last seven years as translators and security aides are spinning their expertise at navigating this shifting...
...took gambles that today would be unthinkable. Imagine they built an airliner and it just plummets from the sky. Can you imagine if the federal government worked with the airliners that flew it and the company that built it to cover up the fact that they built a weak plane...
...Does Anthony have any metal in his body? Any piercings? Not this clean-cut, soccer-playing Mormon. Giedd tapes a vitamin E capsule onto Anthony's left cheek and one in each ear. He explains that the oil-filled capsules are opaque to the scanner and will define a plane on the images, as well as help researchers tell left from right. The scanning will take about 15 minutes, during which Anthony must lie completely still. Dressed in a red sweat shirt, jeans and white K-Swiss sneakers, he stretches out on the examining table and slides his head into...
Martin Amis is a cold-hearted bastard.I don’t know that for certain, of course, but I can’t see how anyone with any true emotion or sensitivity could produce the 14 pieces collected in “The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom.” He attacks his subject with precisely the level of extreme rationality that he professes to value, and the resulting analyses are shocking both for their lucidity and their ruthlessness.The roughly 200-page volume contains pieces the Englishman published in American and British periodicals between September...
...Survived a plane crash in 1978 that killed his wife. They had five children. Stevens later remarried...