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COLOMBIA Deadly Welcome A U.S. spotter plane and 20,000 soldiers and police were not enough to ensure safety in the capital Bogotá, as at least 17 civilians were killed and nearly 60 people were wounded in explosions minutes before Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as Colombia's new President. No group claimed responsibility, but several factors pointed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (farc): the deadliness of the strike within 800 m of the presidential palace, the use of homemade mortars and an earlier pledge by Uribe to get tough on the Marxist guerrilla group. "Expect action...
That may be in part because male nannies are now hip. Jon Bon Jovi, playing the latest love interest of TV's Ally McBeal, doubles as a nanny to her daughter, 10. Trend spotter Faith Popcorn predicts that in the next decade, "manny" (as the guys are called) will become, well, a household word. "Europeans have known for decades that guys can be just as nurturing," says Helen Riley-Collins of San Francisco's In-House Staffing at Aunt Ann's, one of the country's oldest agencies. "Now we're starting to accept...
...Around 10 a.m. four more special-operations soldiers and eight men from the 10th Mountain Division arrived at a position about 300 yds. outside the fort to the northeast. Inside the fort, bomb spotters were preparing three more strikes. A pilot circled overhead, radioing instructions to the spotters, his voice clearly audible on handsets held by the soldiers posted outside the fort. "Be advised," he said to the soldiers in the fort, "you are dangerously close. You are about a hundred yards away from the target." "I think we're perhaps a little too close," came the spotter's reply...
...throttle under your thin-soled shoe. For the first time today, you're alone. You hear silence, then a rapid thumping: "It's your heart beating inside your ears when the earphones are plugged into the radio," says Cope. Two voices will guide you: your crew chief and your spotter, high above the track. "He is my eyes and ears. He tells me what is going on: if I am clear to move, what openings exist. He gives me choices...
Milton is still a plane spotter at heart. His office, overlooking Montreal's Dorval Airport, is brimming with models and photos of planes. He has turned his desk to face Dorval's runways, and he has binoculars within reach to see if planes are docking on time--and at the right gate. Now he has only to get Canadians to love his hobby as much as he does...