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...sure didn't know. She came running downthe aisle at the end of the runway and gave me ahug," she added...
...delighted in turning much of Sarajevo into something like a shooting gallery at an amusement park. "The Serbs always shoot at us," says Colonel Alain Ferrand, commander of the 100 French soldiers who protect the Sarajevo airport, five miles from Grouzelle's barracks. "Every time we go to the runway or other exposed places, we get a few bullets. Usually they hit the ground 1 or 2 m [3 or 6 ft.] in front of us. And they love to shoot at night. God knows why." Ferrand says the morale of his troops is high. Still, he repeats the familiar...
...ecosystems completely out of whack. Their mounds -- up to hundreds of them per acre -- have made many a farm field all but unplowable. And because the ants are strangely attracted to electric current, they have been known to chew through underground cables, disrupting everything from telephone service to airport runway lights and even starting fires...
...directors are not the only ones to work both sides of the fence. A-list fashion editors sometimes work as stylists for a runway show or an advertising campaign. The jobs pay between $2,500 and $3,000 a day. "This is a bad phenomenon, and it's been happening a lot," says Patrick McCarthy, executive editor of Women's Wear Daily, which prohibits the practice. "It pollutes your editorial pages. How can you expect an editor to cover a designer objectively if that editor is also getting a paycheck from...
...about 2 p.m. on June 24, 1994, a B-52 bomber took off from Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington State to practice air-show maneuvers. Barely 15 minutes later, while attempting to circle the runway's control tower in a steep turn, it crashed at 170 m.p.h., narrowly missing nuclear weapons bunkers and a crowded airmen's school. No one had wanted to fly with the pilot-Lieut. Colonel Arthur Holland, a 24-year veteran about to retire. Indeed, two of the three other officers killed with Holland were there because their subordinates feared flying with...