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...Chief during the war in Kosovo, Al Gore may do the same during the war in the schools. Unlike so many others, he didn't single out culture or guns for blame, but immediately addressed both. He and Tipper were for values before it was cool. If his below-radar efforts last week are successful, the man who clumsily claimed to have created the Internet may be the one to clean it up, getting the biggest players to voluntarily keep the worst sites from children...
...head in behind a SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) package. These Navy EA-6B radar-jamming planes and Air Force radar-killing F-16CJs scour the skies for electronic clues betraying a SAM radar. As you plunge deeper over enemy territory between 15,000 and 25,000 ft., there's an aerial ballet taking place far above: a layer of F-15Cs ensuring that no Serbian pilot gets close enough to take a shot...
Above the fighters is the intel package: E-3 AWACS and E-2C radar planes, E-8 Joint STARS ground-surveillance planes and RC-135 Rivet Joint planes. They comb the sky and ground for the enemy, feed targets to pilots and keep allied warplanes safely apart. When you near your target, you peel off from your buddies, dodging antiaircraft artillery and corkscrewing missiles...
...John Cusack (Con Air, Grosse Pointe Blank) is Nick Falzone, an air traffic control freak who "pushes tin" at New York's Terminal Radar Approach Control center (TRACON). He directs planes coming into NYC airports, sings oldies when he's not rattling off instructions to airplane pilots and slurps coffee while directing planes to safe landings...
...Known as "The Zone," Nick is responsible for the busiest radar scope in TRACON. He lands all of Newark airport's planes, and is capable of handling heavy air traffic for hours on end. He's quick, he's sharp, and he's good. In this world of chaos and finite airspace, Nick is the best there...