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Arms locked out in front of me, I sweep my .357 semiautomatic pistol back and forth across the panicked passengers. My heart is thumping wildly, my breathing too rapid. Fighting the tunnel vision that comes from fear, I try to remember to scan the plane for threats. Just seconds earlier, I had heard the first bloodcurdling yell--"They're stabbing people back here...
...similar negotiating structure fell apart two years ago in Mid-Cambridge when residents objected to Harvard’s proposal to build a tunnel underneath Cambridge Street to connect the two halves of its new Center for Government and International Studies. A team of neighborhood, University and city representatives reached a tentative accord that would have allowed Harvard to build the tunnel in exchange for community benefits. But a neighborhood negotiating representative pulled out at the last minute because he said he was not given the chance to bring the agreement to the other residents for approval...
Harvard officially gives up plans to build a tunnel under Cambridge Street to connect the future Center for Government and International Studies buildings. After months of negotiating, Harvard failed to overcome strong neighborhood opposition to the project...
...mention at 5:30 one recent morning bang on a houseguest's bedroom door, elbow it open and deliver a tray of hot coffee and grapefruit wedges and then trumpet the start of an adventure that would in a few hours take him inside the roaring wind tunnel at Fort Bragg. There, in the levitating blast of air, he grins and trains for free fall from an airplane, looking like Buck Rogers (his era) in helmeted black zip-up, forming an untethered star with half a dozen new buddies of the Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team...
...bombing stoked fears that the Lebanese militia Hizballah is getting better at moving its signature explosives into the area. A senior Hamas official tells TIME that the roadside bomb was smuggled into Gaza, though he would not say from where. The explosives were probably brought in through a tunnel passing under the Egyptian border or by sea, say Israeli military sources. They told TIME that soldiers uncovered in the region five other roadside devices identical to those perfected by Hizballah during Israel's disastrous occupation of southern Lebanon. Moreover, the type of explosive used last week has until now proved...