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...years ago, Yasser Obaid Hussein's life was full of peril - but his mind was filled with hope. Night after night, his modest Baghdad apartment was shaken by the U.S. "shock and awe" bombing campaign. His pregnant wife Sheherezad was worried that a cruise missile might crash through the window. To calm her and their three children, Yasser tried to stay positive. "If we survive the bombs," he recalls saying, "we will have a wonderful new life...
...Throughout the day, onlookers and television viewers caught glimpses of the children, aged four to eight, through gaps in the bus' curtains as they periodically waved at TV cameras. One girl in a ponytail could be seen caressing a Barbie doll behind the front window. Another child, reportedly suffering from a fever, was released shortly after noon and taken to Manila hospital...
...Most of the 197 people on board had already started mingling and moving about the double-decker cabin to discuss business matters and reactions to take-off. Others looked around, in and under the seats and overhead compartments and checked out the toilets (especially the one with the window and faux-marble lid in first class) as the crew prepared champagne, orange juice, fruit and hors d'oeuvres. Those still in their seats tested the goods: the channels and games on the touchscreen and the reclining capability...
...After an hour in the air, the plane started its descent into JFK. It is one thing to see a whale fly but remember how all that weight splashes down? From the window, the airport runway seemed to approach rapidly. Then the tires hit the ground, causing a deep rumble. A split-second panic: would those little wheels give way? A few people winced as the aircraft shuddered and swayed and the A380 slowed down. The great white whale had landed...
...departure from Harvard have long been a point of contention. Gates was disciplined by the Ad Board for conducting commercial business on the University’s computers, but he maintains that he left voluntarily in 1975 because, “I wasn’t sure the window of opportunity for starting up a software company would open again...