Colombia would like to borrow Brazilian air strips when it is chasing traffickers' planes.

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That is why air strips from Cheju in Korea to Davao in the Philippines to Medan in Indonesia are busy turning themselves into international airports that can handle giants like the Boeing 747-400.

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What will be in demand are intercontinental air travel, remote area access where air strips are spotty, air traffic control networks, aerospace fasteners capable of holding together lighter, stronger composite structures, airplane maintenance and overhaul, jet engines and spare parts galore.

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So Ted Stevens may have saved my life and that was something a great many Alaskans could say as they looked about at the roads and bridges, the hospitals and flood-control systems, the satellite weather and global-positioning relay stations, the sprawling Army and Air Force bases, the rural landing strips and postal air-cargo flights that sustain existence in Alaska as it enters its fiftieth year of statehood.

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