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...through its lucrative defense contracts, but critics say they aren't sufficient to level the playing field, and U.S. officials occasionally threaten to punish Airbus. The political equation may be changing, though. "U.S. companies are thrilled to be a part of the A380," says Mark Sullivan of engine maker Pratt & Whitney...
...Phoenix, Ariz., to provide the crucial electronic flight-management system (which helps with navigation) for the A380, rejecting its usual supplier, France's Thales. And three carriers, including Air France, have asked that their copies of the A380 be equipped with engines made jointly by General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, rather than Rolls-Royce...
...Runnion and Van Dam were taken and brutally murdered; Smart stolen from her home and still missing. Those girls, white, middle-class and taken from neighborhoods where those kinds of things don't happen, you've heard of them. But you probably wouldn't have heard of Erica Pratt, a seven-year-old kidnapped from a sidewalk near her home Monday night, because she is from a neighborhood where those kinds of things happen, or at least where we think they do; the area of Southwest Philadelphia where she lives is a poor place where drug-dealing is common...
Anthony Demas, a graduate of the Pratt Institute in New York and a 1980 graduate of the Harvard Business School, died in the terrorist attacks...
This ignores the latest twist on a now familiar argument: that unless we dress up in grotesque or silly frocks and ask people for junk food, the terrorists will have won. "Halloween is the only holiday we have left where people open their doors to strangers," says Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History. "It's a holiday for kids, and there is no reason to take it away from them...