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...mile supply line into Iraq from Kuwait that has been subject to constant Iraqi harassment. And getting "there" in the lumbering HC-130, a big, slow target for surface-to-air missiles (SAMS), means flying about 300 feet above the desert and passing through a gauntlet of Iraqi radar systems. Because of all the surface-to-air- missile beacons in the area, alarms go off in the cabin. And one pesky mobile SAM battery has been roaming around and targeting incoming planes for weeks?hence the southern approach, coming in above a stretch of remote desert that is patrolled...
Flying Below The Radar...
...nature of queer art. Han Yu ’06, the exhibit’s curator, explains that she wasn’t merely attempting to display works by gay and lesbian artists. Even “straight up gay and lesbian depictions” were not on her radar; after all, she points out, with Abercrombie models photographed in homoerotic contexts and lipsticked models posing lesbian, the public has been flooded with such images. Yu wanted instead to gather works that could be read with a queer message in order to promote an inspection of how society pictures homosexual...
...already seeing Afghanistan drop from the radar screen." JOSEPH R. BIDEN, Democratic U.S. Senator, criticizing America's failure to honor its commitment to rebuild Afghanistan...
Even Penn and Princeton’s brief annual appearances on CBS belie the fact that they, too, are but blips on the big sports radar. If, as panelist and Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan suggested, tournament teams can be likened to different types of marathon runners, the Ivy League representative is the disciplined amateur—noble in his pursuit but stunned with a result any better than a good solid effort...