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...longtime student of bankruptcy, marvels at how a piece of legislation that could penalize so many people has come this far. "This is one of those things with low visibility, and therefore it's easy to give in to the interest group," says Warren. "It all flies below the radar screen. That's the best place for the lobbyists. That's where the pickings are the fattest. The only way to explain it is campaign contributions." --With reporting by Laura Karmatz and Andrew Goldstein and research by Joan Levinstein...
...suggests that the international community is increasingly unwilling to manage its relationship with Beijing through the prism of U.S. concerns, and that gives China plenty of room to maneuver. Even Washington's closest international ally, Israel, has rebuffed U.S. efforts to stop it from selling China an advanced airborne radar system...
...Stanford is definitely on our radar screen when it comes to these issues of recruitment," Blackbourn says...
...best solutions may be the big-ticket improvements that have proved most elusive. The FAA continues to support a sophisticated ground-radar system that is $30 million over budget and years late. Closing poorly designed airports and restricting the number of flights per hour would probably prove effective--and expensive. It comes down, says Air Safety Week editor David Evans, to "the classic tension between economics and safety." In this trade-off, there's a lot to be said for safety. Just ask Bob and Elizabeth Dole...
...Most of China's warplanes are old Soviet knockoffs. While Beijing has several dozen modern Su-27 fighters, they could be overwhelmed by Taiwan's Western-supplied and well-armed air force. And Taiwanese planes have a key advantage: they would be guided by U.S.-built E-2 radar planes. EDGE Taiwan...