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TIME Why aren't you behind the wheel...
...edge of financial ruin several times. It made its name flying refugees during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. A World aircraft was the last commercial airplane to leave Da Nang in 1975--overloaded with so many Vietnamese that eight turned up in the wheel wells. After an unsuccessful attempt at becoming a regularly scheduled carrier in the 1980s, World focused on military flying in the 1990s...
...post-graduate path has found him poised behind the wheel of Ferraris and performing operas beside Pavarotti in Milan. He even served a stint in the U.S. Army...
...Etoile. "He was confident about his decision to break with the Syrians," recalls a diplomat who chatted with him. "He said, 'I'm sick and tired of the sons of bitches.'" Dr. Khoury was beeped to perform an emergency operation at American University Hospital. Hariri got behind the wheel of his armor-plated Mercedes Benz, with Fleihan in the passenger seat, and drove toward his West Beirut mansion in a six-vehicle convoy. As they passed the seafront Hotel St. Georges, a Beirut landmark, an explosion caused by a 1,000-kg bomb turned the site into an inferno. Hariri...
...patrol leader dismissed their concerns, and on the evening of May 14, the six men silently slipped from a moving four-wheel-drive vehicle on a deserted rocky track south of Taraka Gorge, a steep-sided valley about 130 km southeast of Kabul. Their task was to set up an observation point overlooking a village suspected of harboring Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. Intelligence reports suggested there were gun emplacements and bunkers on the mountainsides and that the enemy were using part of the area as an escape route to Pakistan. The patrol was to observe...