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...most dangerous and at least the most frightened I was over the course of the trip was probably when we were embedded with the troops in Afghanistan. These guys are targets. Al-Qaeda targets them. Taliban targets them. The week before we got to the base where were staying, there was a mortar attack on the base. There was a Taliban ambush on the governor?s convoy. There?s so many things that at any moment these guys could suddenly become target practice. That?s a scary place to be. You?re protected and you feel safe...
...their hovering teachers, "Interview over." His only threat of physical violence comes in Israel, from the Orthodox Jews who see his camera and shout, "Get the hell out of here!" (You get the full versions of these confrontations in the new Random House book Spurlock has written about his trip...
...risk taker. He was right in character at the press conference announcing V Australia, staged inside one of the departure terminals at LAX, to the slight confusion of people walking toward security. As Brett Godfrey, Virgin Blue's CEO, unveils the airline's introductory fare--$1,000 round trip between Sydney and Los Angeles--Branson, in jeans and a rumpled polo shirt, interrupts. "That's not good enough," he declares. "What kind of plane are we flying? 777s? Then let's make it $777 for the first thousand tickets!" People cheer, as if Branson has just spontaneously handed...
...Scottish emigrants leaving for the New World. "All the songs of Scotland are sad songs," Brown says, in a two-hour interview with TIME. "They're songs of departure about people who will never see each other again because they've gone to America." Brown, who is making a trip to the U.S. for meetings with President George W. Bush and the three Senators competing to succeed him, has been shaped both by the great minds of the Scottish Enlightenment, like Smith, and by a long engagement with the country that lured away so many of his compatriots. "I love...
...rocky few months, some Labour Party activists, worried about their prospects at the next election (which doesn't have to be held until 2010), openly wonder whether Brown's long time in Blair's shadow has truly prepared him for the top job. Seen through that prism, his U.S. trip and other such international fixtures are a test he cannot afford to flunk...