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...Taiwan-born, New York-based photographer cast a jaundiced eye on the florid excesses of the wedding industry in his native island: the countless gaudy outfits thrown on and off for the wedding portrait, the banquet dinner that could fill the hangar of an aircraft carrier. Chang's perceptive photos showed the ordinary, exhausted people buried beneath the heavy makeup, the costumes, the confetti, the expectations. In his newest book Double Happiness, Chang digs deeper, documenting the made-to-order marriages of Taiwan men and their Vietnamese brides?virtual strangers until the day they...
Started in 1948, World has teetered on the 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...
...Initially US intelligence thought the SAS had found Bin Laden, says Adam. A jet was called and dropped a 500kg bomb but it exploded over 100 meters away in a creek bed. Follow up air-raids by A-10 warthog aircraft killed a number of suspected Al Qaeda fighters but opinions are still divided about the success of the raid...
...radio kept the patrol leader in touch with the coalition base at Bagram, and in theory gave him access to the might of the U.S. Air Force. Convinced he was under attack from al-Qaeda fighters, he called for air support. It was refused: the risk of anti-aircraft missiles meant the Americans were unwilling to fly at the low altitude necessary. Headquarters also ruled out flying in more troops because the landing zone was deemed too dangerous...
...most stringent security measures imposed on commercial flights in and out. Traveling in and out of Reagan, for example, airline passengers must remain in their seats within 30 minutes of take off and landing. Reagan has also been the site of two recent security scares when small propeller aircraft unintentionally entered the restricted airspace around Washington and were chased by military fighter jets. Both planes landed without incident...