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...Suddenly, to their right, a white Chevrolet SUV with blacked-out windows sped along a slip road, made a U turn, and stopped about 200 m away, facing the convoy. From its passenger window, a belt-fed machinegun opened fire. The first bullets announced themselves with a puff of dust beside Yeager's vehicle, then a burst hit Ahmelman in the thigh. The videotape from the dashboard camera recorded the sound of bullets hitting the car, Ahmelman crying out, then a chaos of yells, revving cars and machinegun fire...
...only historical liberties Hanks and Cowen took in their 40-min. moon ride were small ones. The curators of the lunar vehicles wanted to keep the machines free of dust, so the interior of the module stays clean--far different from the gunpowder-scented, soil-covered surfaces the astronauts describe. Hanks also had the actor astronauts lift their gold-colored visors more often than their real-life counterparts did, revealing the clear faceplates--and faces--underneath. "We wanted to remind audiences that those were human beings up there," he says...
...minute meeting was pieced together months later by U.S. military intelligence. It represents a rare moment of clarity in the dust storm of violence that swirls through central Iraq. The insurgency has grown well beyond its initial Baathist core to include religious extremist and Iraqi nationalist organizations, and plain old civilians who are angry at the American occupation. But Saddam's message of "rebuilding your networks" remains the central organizing principle...
...time, students health and safety will be at risk in several ways. Sleep schedules will be disturbed by early-morning construction, despite the Universitys purported interest in encouraging students to get adequate and consistent sleep. Loud noise at 8 a.m. will jeopardize the mental health of countless students. Moreover, dust from the construction site will give the neighborhood a cloud of hazardous air. And with the long-term closure of the path beside the Leverett Towers, students from Dunster and Mather, along with dog-walkers and local schoolchildren, will be forced to walk farther along the streets, including Memorial Drive...
...based JetBlue, just five years old and the most successful low-fare start-up in history, will begin in November flying the Embraer 190--smaller planes that will allow the company to connect cities mainly up and down the East Coast. AirTran execs aren't too worried. "When the dust settles, we'll all be stronger," says Fornaro. The airlines that are still flying, that...