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...what places she has been--learning to fly at 17 on a small grass strip in East Stroudsburg, Pa., moving to fly for Shamrock Airlines in Puerto Rico in 1972 because no U.S. airline would hire a female pilot, and in 1978 becoming the first woman pilot hired by Trans World Airlines, then the most glamorous airline going. (Her dad worked there as a pilot. Her mom was a housewife.) Lee was hired by United Parcel Service in 1985 to help expand its air-shipping fleet, and is now the first woman to oversee the company's 2,527 pilots...
...Israelis call ha-Masterim (the Masters). In Defensive Shield, Israeli forces picked up or killed all the Hamas men they knew of in the West Bank who had mastered the precise formulas for homemade explosives. But according to Israeli intelligence, a few top Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip slipped through Israeli security to the West Bank and have begun to produce explosives there, reinvigorating the West Bank wing of the group that had been on the ropes during and just after Defensive Shield...
...build a wall - a wall so high not even the birds can fly over it - and permit the Palestinians to establish their state on the other side of it, as the Saudi peace plan suggests? Few terrorists succeed in breaking through the security fence that surrounds the Gaza Strip. In fact the only reason why Israel still faces problems in that part of the country is because, against all military logic, it insists on maintaining a presence on both sides of the fence instead of withdrawing to one side of it." He insisted earlier this week (see below) that...
...Although I was not a particular fan of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s, I found this treatment of his memory to be appalling. It trivializes and undercuts the life of someone who was basically a good person and who tried to accomplish something with his talents. The comic strip, totally unfunny in itself, must have been incredibly offensive to those who truly knew Kennedy and cared about him. DAVID R. GOODRICH San Antonio, Texas...
...waving American flags. Joyful members of North Carolina's 3,000-strong Montagnard community are on hand, as are relief workers from Lutheran Family Services who bustle about, counting heads and arranging transportation that will ferry the refugees to their new lives in the land of pickup trucks and strip malls...