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...mail "from some doctor in a tent outside Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb can dispatch a burn team to Landstuhl to bring the soldier back to the Army's specialized facility in Texas. "He's here 24 hours after being wounded," he says with amazement. Landstuhl is now a crucial stop-off point, where the details...
...believes that the deals he has done have helped Chinese businessmen become savvier, smarter competitors. He recalls working with a Chinese airline in 1997 that had trouble even calculating its revenue and employed teams of workers to match used plane tickets and payment receipts by hand. Now, he says, Chinese executives can talk high finance with the world's best. "Chinese executives have become much more sophisticated," he says. "The level of understanding of accounting and financial concepts had been much lower." Still, Zhu realizes that Chinese firms face steep hurdles in international business, especially with foreign acquisitions. Chinese firms...
...lonely estate. He was seen at Milford and Bridgeport, Conn. The "Jafsie" notes disappeared from the newspapers. The Norfolk triumvirate--Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock, John Hughes Curtis, Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. retired--continued their activity. Mr. Curtis effected his weekly disappearance in a naval plane; the Episcopal minister, not very successfully incognito as "H. Pearson," alighted from an airplane at Newark Airport and was reported in consultation with the child's parents. When they were reunited at the end of the week the Norfolkers had nothing to say to the Press. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon...
...rumors. At Syracuse, N. Y. there was a flurry when it was discovered that a baby favoring the Lindbergh child had arrived on a nearby farm. A Lockheed low-wing monoplane alighted at Newark Airport and its two passengers electrified spectators with a package containing "something alive." The plane, it developed, belonged to Asa Candler ("Coca-Cola") of Atlanta, Ga. "Something alive" was a pair of small monkeys which Mr. Candler was sending to friends in New Hampshire...
...influences all these different countries; then I’ll read [Aidan Hartley’s] The Zanzibar Chest, a book about East African democracy. We’re going to the beach for two days and then to a conference, so I guess the books are for the plane ride...