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...easy to forget, sitting cramped in coach as your pilot joins a line of 12 planes waiting for takeoff, that human beings have been flying for only 100 years. TIME Online presents an interactive tribute to the century's magnificent flying men, women and machines that have shrunk our world. See www.time.com/2003/flight/...
...characterized those who oppose U.N. involvement in postwar Iraq as believing "If you weren't with us on the takeoff, you don't deserve to be there for the landing." I thought we were trying to make the world a better place. It is the world community that will be affected by the results of Iraq's reconstruction for a long time. It is the world community, then, that should participate in the establishment of a new Iraq. Isn't that the democratic way? DAMON REGAN Orlando...
...Saturday morning. Most of us had no idea that a shuttle had been aloft for the last 16 days. Israel’s attention had been fixed on themission; their first man in space was on board. But for Americans, this was just another routine shuttle flight; its takeoff and landing would get a passing mention on the evening news, nothing more...
...RECORD Busia Kenya's new labor minister, Ahmad Mohamed Khalif, was killed along with two pilots when their aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff. Three other ministers were injured. Caracas One person was killed and at least 12 wounded after a suspected bomb exploded near a pro-government rally in the Venezuelan capital. Patna A deadly monthlong cold spell led the Indian state of Bihar to declare a disaster. Some of the lowest temperatures in three decades have killed more than 1,800 people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Kabul After a 10-year ban Afghan women regained the right...
...says Jones. Crew members made him sit down, but Jones, fearing a bomb, went further and--on her own--ordered a full aircraft interior search after passengers disembarked. "Now I'm more involved in the situation," she says. "I make sure everything is checked; bins are opened before takeoff. I'm proactive...