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I went to college in America soon after the Soviets were defeated. Surprisingly, few Americans I met seemed to think of Pakistan as an ally. Fewer still knew where Pakistan was. After the war, America turned its back. Aid and military supplies were cut off. My friends back home were...
There are about 45,000 FAA employees in the world, and for the most part they are men and women who prefer to work behind the scenes. They're comfortable there. They man controllers' screens in darkened basement rooms, they maintain the complex computer systems that operate the world's...
As workers pick through the very real pieces of the symbols of U.S. economic and military vigor, we who are shielded by so many television and computer screens, and who wonder what the reality of such work is, might ask ourselves and each other if strength is susceptible to different...
Controllers all over the eastern United States might have already realized this day had turned into hell. The screens that glow in darkened rooms in hundreds of facilities around the country are the linchpin of an air traffic system that manages tens of thousands of flights a day. The system...
At the FAA's national command center in Herndon, Virginia, some 30 miles from Washington, the usually predictable patterns on the small, 21 inch screens, as well as the huge 10 foot screen that display the nation's air traffic control system in action would have started to go awry...