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...Cruise always avoids the eyes of other drivers. Zipping confidently through midday Los Angeles traffic in his blue Porsche Carrera, he obscures himself with a baseball cap and sunglasses. Pausing at a light, a car to his left, he discreetly raises his tinted window...
...helicopter gunships stormed the West Bank towns of Jenin, Qalqilya and Nablus. Troops entered Ramallah and Bethlehem, while helicopters .red on the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian gunman killed five Israeli settlers in Itamar on the West Bank. EUROPE Empty Skies Travel plans were thrown into chaos as air-traffic controllers went on strike to protest an E.U. plan to put the Continent's airspace under international controls. Almost all French short-haul flights were affected by the one-day walkout, which also hit Greece, Hungary, Italy and Portugal. General strikes in Greece and Spain complicated the situation for travelers...
...information available prior to Sept. 11 did not justify grounding commercial air traffic. But what about tightening security? Were intermediate measures inconceivable? Why is everything in this Administration always one extreme or the other? Good or evil; for us or against us; fly planes or ground planes? JEFFREY SAINIO Milwaukee...
...royal blue of Japan's team, rocking arenas with a seismic jolt of uncharacteristically exuberant support for the home side. Thousands of delirious Japanese poured onto the streets of Osaka on Friday night after the 2-0 victory over Tunisia. They climbed lampposts, darted in and out of traffic and leaped off car roofs. About 100 people, including salarymen, teenagers, and one buck-naked man with a Japanese flag tied around his neck like a cape, jumped into the green, murky waters of the Dotombori River. "Banzai!" the caped crusader yelled...
...that's changing fast. Long Beach is the unlikely scene of the airline industry's fiercest dogfight over passengers and landing slots. Upstart carrier JetBlue Airways cleverly identified Long Beach airport as a back door into the lucrative Southern California market--and a way around the luggage lines and traffic jams that afflict the bigger airports 22 miles north in Los Angeles and 22 miles south in Orange County. It's a fight that features the usual coast-to-coast fare cuts, but it's also one that suggests passengers are changing the way they think about air travel...