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...second incident; a U.S. Marine was killed en route to help ambushed comrades Wednesday; two U.S. troops were reported missing overnight Thursday in Baghdad, and later in the day Centcom announced that a Special Operations soldier had been killed and eight wounded by hostile fire during an operation southwest of Baghdad. Two Iraqis employed to help restore Baghdad's electricity supply were among those killed in a rocket attack on a U.S. convoy Thursday, while saboteurs blew up two important oil pipelines earlier in the week, apparently recognizing their ability to disrupt power supplies by targeting some of the country...
...style navy trousers and light blue shirts, replacing the old green military getups. "The reception has been incredible," Kerik says. "They want these new uniforms and new responsibilities. You can see their mind-set changing." But try telling that to the cops at the Bayaa police station in southwest Baghdad, a decrepit, filthy office so badly looted after the war that if local residents want to file a crime report, they have to write it down on their own paper. The dozen or so policemen there complain about their pay ($20 for the past month), their lack of firepower...
...easy to see why they want to help. Sosenko is a native and a favorite son of Joliet, a middle-class town about 45 miles southwest of Chicago. The child of Ukrainian immigrants who fled a displaced-persons camp in Germany after World War II, Sosenko grew up in Joliet watching his father, Roman, serve the town as a family doctor. He wanted to do the same for his friends and neighbors, treating people suffering from diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer...
...thank Southwest Airlines for the changes--or curse it, if you are a competitor. Southwest, based in Dallas, created the basic-fare, point-to-point model the new discount carriers are adapting and profiting from. Five airlines today--AirTran, ATA, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines--aspire to be the next Southwest, and at least two major carriers, Delta Air Lines and United, have launched or announced plans for low-fare, me-too subsidiaries (a second try for both...
...with headquarters in Orlando, Fla., moved into that airport within weeks. It has now built a successful mini-hub there, with 22 flights a day. The low fares have been a boon to these once obscure airports: Midway Airport in Chicago--which is served by AirTran, ATA, Frontier and Southwest--now offers 22% of all U.S. flights from Chicago, up from 14% in 1997. And while many major carriers have cut flights, departures from Midway have grown 16% since...