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Some American pilots--and many are military vets--don't want to be holding just the yoke should that door open. Last week pilot chat sites were burning with a desire to rearm, a privilege revoked in 1987 when flight crews became subject to the same screening procedures as passengers, meaning they could no longer carry firearms. "It's probably the worst thing that ever happened," says Rick Givens, a retired USAir pilot and Air Force veteran of the Vietnam...
...Greco-Roman "modernism" was conflicted, however. A building full of soldiers loomed over the Temple courtyards like a watchtower over a prison. As Jesus and the other pilgrims performed the most sacred rites of their faith, they would never be beyond surveillance. After Herod's initial rise, the Roman yoke was relatively light, consisting mostly of tribute. But the Jews had been independent for a century before the imperial conquest, and many hoped to return to that state. In recognition of this, above the Temple's northwestern corner stood the city's great Roman garrison, the Antonia, named after Herod...
HANS DEVICE Shoulder yoke attaches to helmet and stops head snapping back and forth. more than 40 drivers placed orders the day after Earnhardt's death...
...article "How Do You Junk Your Computer?" about ways to recycle computer parts [TECHNOLOGY, Feb. 12], included a diagram of a PC with a part identified as a "monitor yolk." I may not be a computer expert, but I do know the difference between the yoke on a cathode-ray tube and that of an egg, which is what's on your faces. HANNAH TANENBAUM Manlius...
...after Clinton offered a lame defense of her disastrous 1994 health-care-reform plan, Lazio scored by saying that "a New Yorker would never have made that proposal," neatly tying her health-care problem to her carpetbagger problem. He had a nice line ready for her attempts to yoke him to Gingrich--"Mrs. Clinton, you of all people shouldn't try to make guilt by association"--but delivered it like a dinner-theater Hamlet, all portent and no grace. Then his aggressive stage direction got the best of him, and he went in for some guilt-by-association...