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Lindbergh was just 25, with a mere five years of flying behind him, when in May 1927 he became the first pilot to complete a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. The audacious feat made him a national hero--the recipient of euphoric parades, a Congressional Medal of Honor and a posting as a roving ambassador of goodwill. TIME called him "the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt." He completed his annus mirabilis by meeting Anne Morrow, whom he would marry in 1929. They would seek privacy, especially after their son was notoriously kidnapped and murdered in 1932, but both...
...Sloops to Conquer Though Frenchman Michel Desjoyeaux won the solo Vend?e Globe Round the World yacht race, Britain's tiny (1.57 m tall) Ellen MacArthur earned the loudest cheers. Her gutsy 94-day voyage drew a crowd of 200,000 to the Sables d'Olonne finish line in France to hail the youngest - she's 24 - and the quickest woman ever to complete the race...
...Artist of the Year award, but days later headlines blared that the trio was splitting. Yes? No! Mathew Knowles, controller of Destiny--creatively speaking--and father to lead singer Beyonce, 20 (at center, of course), is adamant that it's a break, not a breakup. "All are exploring solo opportunities," he insists. "We're giving the sound a break." So Michelle Williams (far right), 21, will have a gospel album; Kelly Rowland, also 21, has a single on this summer's Men in Black 2 soundtrack, and Beyonce will be in the new Austin Powers film. They'll still tour...
...truth can be used selectively. To get Iraqi soldiers to listen to its program during the 1991 Desert Storm War, Commando Solo broadcast the targets U.S. warplanes would strike each day. To win its market share in Afghanistan, bombers knocked out Radio Sharia, the Taliban station, and Commando Solo began broadcasting on a frequency near Sharia's. The CIA sent in radios for villages and Commando Solo played popular Afghan music the Taliban had banned from the airwaves...
...psywar schemes have worked. During the 1993 intervention in Somalia, a leaflet urging support for peacekeepers mistranslated "United Nations" so Somalis thought it said "Slave Nations." A Pentagon study concluded that Commando Solo's broadcasts during NATO's 1999 air war over Kosovo were largely ineffective. In Desert Storm, psyops soldiers held focus groups among Iraqi POWs to determine what messages resonated. Afghanistan is still too unsettled for the 4th Group to survey prisoners or civilians on whether they've been swayed by the pitch. "I think we're making a difference," says Treadwell. The proof will...