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...former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's controversial Op-Ed. I had been invited to a fancy Washington country club by friends. Since the club didn't allow the use of cell phones, I kept running from pool to parking lot to try to reach Libby, who was traveling to Norfolk, Va., with Vice President Dick Cheney for the commissioning of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. Eventually I raced home without showering in order to take Libby's call. When he finally reached me at around 3 p.m., we spoke for a few minutes as I sprawled...
Whichever comes first--the grandkids or the license--many grandparents view flying as a godsend for bonding with their children's children. "Flying is my special thing that I can pass on to them," says retired nurse Betty Vinson, 64, of Prince George, Va., who took up flying at 50. Vinson takes her three grandkids, ages 4 to 13, aloft regularly. From toddlerhood, they have loved it. "Years later," Vinson says, "my granddaughter would talk about flying right through clouds and how they were not solid but soft like smoke." The first time Gary Spoor, 48, took up Garrett...
...kind" is almost impossible to follow. Nearly all snack foods, especially packaged cakes and cookies, contain those harmful oils. Scientists should try to find an alternative to them as quickly as possible. People need to know just how bad that stuff is. DAVID R. LADEN Virginia Beach, Va...
...perhaps the most important distinction of the Coast Guard is that it trusts itself. On the morning of 9/11, Allen, then commander of the Atlantic Area, was getting a physical in Portsmouth, Va. By the time he got back to the office, shortly after the second plane had hit the Twin Towers, a captain in New York had already closed his port. Another captain closed waterways around Baltimore and Washington. They didn't need to ask Allen for permission, and he, in turn, didn't need to ask his commandant for permission to position three large cutters in New York...
...Crimson’s total score of 301, a two-stroke improvement over the previous record, earned the team second place in a field of 11 colleges at the William and Mary Invitational. The team was greeted with rain when it arrived at the Kiskiack Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va. on Friday. Harvard got through only seven holes of its practice round before the rain rendered the course unplayable. The rain did not abate and the tournament was shortened to one day after the weather forced the cancellation of Saturday’s round. Sunday, the rain stopped...