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pilot gets shot in head..fly's helicopter back to base

Holiday music wafted in, and the appeals board director asked Paul to close the door. Santa's last reply - a long, hand-crafted letter, in splendid script - lay open on the table. “He won't even follow directions for the appeals letter,” sniffed June, a board member. “We've asked him to address the board via e-mail and fill out specific forms, but he refuses!” Macomber, another panelist, spoke up. “Santa likes letters. They are homey and personal. He will never send an e-mail.” The other panelists looked at Macomber with pity, and the director gave a grimace-like smile. “If he'd comply...

It may look like a furry spider but this rare insect is none other than the Mormotomyia Hirsuta, or Terrible Hairy Fly - only the third of the 1cm beasties to be found. Researchers believe the flightless species never moved from one bat-filled cave in Kenya’s Ukazi hills, east of Nairobi.

"Don't fly." That's Janet Napolitano's answer to those who oppose the regime of poke and grope that is today's Transportation Safety Agency. America is, after all, a land of choices. When you arrive at the airport, you can allow some complete stranger to irradiate you with a device that allows the operator to see you naked. Or you can allow some friendly security agent to put hands in places where they have no business. Or you can drive. Before you jump out of line and into your car, however, be warned that you can be fined up to $11,000 for...

DETROIT — General Motors executives have been cleared for takeoff again. The automaker has been given the go-ahead by the federal government to use chartered aircraft as early as Thursday to ferry managers on a “road show” promoting G.M.’s public stock offering, according to government and company officials who declined to be identified. It is believed to be the first time that G.M. will use private jets for business-related purposes since the government demanded that it sell its fleet of corporate aircraft in 2008. As a condition for accepting emergency federal assistance, G.M. has required its executives to travel on...