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...graduated in 1997 with a degree in aeronautical science and a commercial pilot's license from the prestigious Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., where nearly a quarter of all commercial pilots train. He surely knew how to fly the large aircraft the terrorists planned to ram into their targets. He was on American Flight 11 with Atta. Abdulaziz Alomari told his Vero Beach landlord in July 2000 that he was a Saudi commercial pilot when he moved in with a wife and three kids. He was then taking classes at FlightSafety Academy, often patronized by employees from...
...farm? Through the '90s, that was essentially the mission of Rage Against the Machine, which covered that Dylan classic on its last album, Renegades (2000). Apropos of another of its Renegades covers, Kick Out the Jams, Rage aimed to be a modern-day MC5, using hard-edged music to ram through a hard-nosed message that was less about peace and love than about old-fashioned, a-pink-slip-and-a-six-pack populist anger. But they were also one of the few acts in recent years to crack the charts with an unfiltered political message. They were, in their...
...about 12:30 p.m., a heavily armed SWAT team clad in bulletproof gear and helmets entered the building with shields, special entry gear, a battering ram and fiber-optic equipment, which the police used to peak under doors in the hotel. The Boston Police Bomb Squad arrived shortly after 1 p.m., and four Boston ambulances waited outside with lights flashing, including a special tactical response unit with EMTs in bulletproof vests and helmets...
...when we look up a telephone number and remember it only long enough to dial. We use it on a more basic level to remember the thread of an argument while we are trying to make a point. A brain without working memory is like a computer without its RAM; its computational abilities are crippled, as they often are in people with diseases that affect the frontal lobe, such as cerebral palsy, dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and schizophrenia...
...Congress in 2002. That would render the President's plans for things like Social Security reform and national missile defense next to impossible to achieve and leave him limping into the '04 election. So a lot is riding on this giant gift to taxpayers, which the G.O.P. hopes to ram through by Memorial...