For years, air travel to Grozny involved landing and taking off in harrowing corkscrews to dodge missiles. Now, the war-torn city is calm and has a shiny new airport
By CJ CHIVERS
The airliner descended toward what recently had been one of the most devastated cities on earth. The passengers gazed out the windows. Beneath them were intricate networks of bunkers and artillery trenches, traces of war cut deep into the soil.

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By MANNY FERNANDEZ
On Sept. 10, 1932, one minute after midnight, a 7-year-old boy named Billy Reilly dropped a nickel into a turnstile and boarded an A train at 42nd Street. It was a southbound express, and it was Billy's first ride on an A.

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