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...instilled the financial discipline needed to weather the downturn. EUROPEAN AIRLINES: Except for some low-cost carriers, Europe's airlines have hit a wall. Passenger traffic was already down 10% since the war began. But SARS could have an even worse effect, said KLM's CEO Leo van Wijk, as the company reported a fresh 3% drop. British Airways took an even bigger hit, with total revenue down 11.4% and traffic to Asia plunging 25%. Where Did Saddam Hide His Loot? To find money for rebuilding Iraq, some European nations may just want to pop by their local banks. Saddam...
...Then his convoy started taking fire from the direction of the van, and Talraas was hit in the leg. "It felt like something had snapped my bone in half," says the young soldier from his hospital bed at Tallil Air Base in south eastern Iraq...
When Zach Talraas saw a white van with flashing red lights barreling toward his Humvee, he held fire. A gentle press of his thumb on the red rubber trigger of his Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher could have incinerated the incoming vehicle. But the 20 year-old army private held off. "Emergency vehicles," he says, "are supposed to be exempt...
...where the fire was coming from." Then a turquoise dump truck with a bright orange Mercedes symbol on it started heading toward them along the river. Talraas could see more "technicals" moving across the bridge about a thousand meters off to the left. That's when the white van appeared, its red lights flashing. After they were shot at, Talraas' driver, Sergeant Michael Maita, hit the gas and sped back to the southeastern corner of the town. Maita had been shot in the hand. "But," said Talraas, "he kept his wits about him and they got out of there," Maita...
Currently number one on Los Angeles radio station KXLU and Charlottesville’s WNRN, the band started performing on the east coast in March, and has since spent many hours driving to gigs in their 1989 Ford Econoline tour van. This past week alone found them playing in Charlottesville, New York, Philadelphia and Cambridge, and the band will be featured on a twelve-minute spot on “All Things Considered” on National Public Radio later in the spring...