Returning home to a wounded Britain
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- Returning home to a wounded Britain
- Culture & Lifestyle | 24.07.2005 All Eyes on Kimi and Ferdy on…
- Wizards and thrillers bury all others
- Nervous pollies bare their teeth
- Flying Was His Life, and His Death
Returning home to a wounded Britain
St. Petersburg Times - Jul 24, 2005
Airport security staff, many of whom are Hindu and Muslim immigrants, were friendly and efficient. But the biggest shock of all was yet to come. It soon emerged that the London bombers were home-grown terrorists, second-generation sons of immigrants. Britain today is a multiracial, multicultural society. It’s something we’ve become rather proud of, albeit some more reluctantly than others. My father, a journalist who spent much of his life working in the Arab world, embraced multiculturalism. He was also among the earliest to warn that the West’s misguided policies in the Middle East would have a backlash.
Culture & Lifestyle | 24.07.2005 All Eyes on Kimi and Ferdy on…
Deutsche Welle - Jul 24, 2005
It is a reflection of his current inauspicious Formula One campaign that World Champion Michael Schumacher is only featuring in reports on this weekend’s German Grand Prix at Hockenheim dues to his nationality. The home grown champion equaled his own record of 11 wins in a season at last year’s race but this year he will be hoping to just get on the podium at the end. Schumi lies in third place some 34 points off the top spot and has a lot to do if he is to record his 85th career win. Ferrari’s poor season to date is unlikely to get better with hopes dwindling that the 36-year-old will add to his sole victory of the season although the seven-time world champion characteristically refuses to rule it out. Schumi and Ferrari still in the fight.
Wizards and thrillers bury all others
The Age - Jul 24, 2005
I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that manages to be soeffectively claustrophobic and agoraphobic at the same time. Here’s an Australian book that should be walking off the shelvesweek after week, not just getting a momentary blip in sales becauseit won a prize. If you must, buy the adventures of the English boy wizard, andthe American solver of ancient puzzles and modern murder mysteries— but celebrate our home-grown talent too.
Nervous pollies bare their teeth
The Age - Jul 24, 2005
They donot in themselves, however, represent something new. We saw a railsystem attacked in Madrid. We saw home-grown terrorists in a foiledattempted attack in London last year. The shock for Australians is that the latest attack happened inLondon. Also, it emphasises that such attacks are likely to go on. Just when it’s thought protections are working, defences and nervesare shattered. Sometimes there are considerable intervals; thistime the focus has shifted quickly — to Egyptian Red Searesorts where many people are dead in a series of explosions.
Flying Was His Life, and His Death
Washington Post - Jul 24, 2005
Of all the [home-built] experimental plane crashes, a high percentage take place on the first flight. Once you get by the first flight, it’s downhill. “Lennox, who once lost the canopy in his home-built experimental Zodiac in midair, had asked Ratliff to let him know when he planned to take the Hummel Bird up the first time. The two were part of a group of local pilots, many of them retirees, that gathers every Saturday morning at the Arby’s on Route 13 in Salisbury to talk about flying. Many were affiliated with the local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association and practically lived at airfields or in the skies over the Eastern Shore, which is gorgeous flying country and has plenty of open fields in which to land if you get into trouble. In such cases, you wanted a nice soft soybean field, they say. Corn, high like it is now, will rip up a small plane…
In such cases, you wanted a nice soft soybean field, they say. Corn, high like it is now, will rip up a small plane. Ratliff, the son of a mining company accountant, had grown up in the coal country of Virginia and Kentucky during the golden age of aviation. As a kid in the 1930s, he had a scrapbook with pictures of airplanes. He had entered the Army during high school with dreams of flying for the Air Corps. But he got airsick easily, his wife said, and World War II had ended by the time he made it overseas. He was a wizard with numbers, however.