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...Zimbabwe and the next I'm on the North Pole or something." All he knew as he stared out the window at that moment was that he was heading west again. "The sun was always there," he says. "It wasn't getting any lower in the sky...
...want to delay that day as long as possible." The wily boss of Baghdad had been pouring money into reconstructing his dated (but deadly) "Tall King" and "Volex" radars and linking them together with new underground fiber-optic cables. That would give the dishes much sharper eyes in the sky and antiaircraft shooters a faster bead on their targets. Pilots on no-fly patrol have lately noticed newly aggressive Iraqi tactics in picking up their aircraft, and they have complained that some surface-to-air missile operator might soon earn the $14,000 reward Saddam has offered for shooting down...
...lead story that continues across issues, involves Frank's finding a vicious protector called the High Horse (though it looks more like a giant, floating planarian worm). Soon Frank becomes addicted to the power this brings him, desperately following it as it slips through a slit in the sky, back to its own plane of existence...
...also getting very worried about the pace of consolidation in the industry. If American and United Airlines' multifaceted, one-giant-washes-the-other deal - in which American buys TWA and some of DCAir and United buys most of USAir - goes through, the two carriers would share half the U.S. sky among them. And that prospect has Continental and Delta itching for a merger of their own - one, those companies say, they'd make out of necessity but not desire...
...when the day comes when everything's downloadable and "Simpsons" reruns are available for laptop viewing, count me in for an eye in the sky...