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...deadly luxury. Last week Swissair announced it was shutting down the system on its 18 jumbo jets after Canadian investigators dredged up evidence of suspicious heat damage near the unit on the Geneva-bound MD-11 that crashed off the Nova Scotia coast Sept. 2, killing all 229 people aboard. The airline said the step was precautionary and no cause for the crash has been determined. Canada's Transportation Safety Board agreed with the airline's position, yet the findings point a finger of suspicion at the electrical wiring on the sophisticated video system...
Schine leaves us with a paraphrased section of a biology text and a set of journal entries sparkling with banality. At one point, underdeveloped character aboard ship Gloria screams, "Blame it one the stars!" Perhaps they are the culprits. But fate aside, Freud, Marx and all of the jargon undermine Schine's witty prose. As Jane's mother tells her daughter, the reader might associate with the author: "You are a girl of conviction. I admire that...
Yesterday afternoon, as the nation watched, one of our living legends blasted off into the heavens. Thirty-six years after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), now 77, has once again captured our hearts aboard the space shuttle Discovery...
...Glenn and his fellow humans will be forgiven a few twinges of disgust and fear at the presence of the roach-o-nauts. It's less than two years since the embattled space station Mir was plagued by the presence of a single floating cockroach -- which, not surprisingly, came aboard by accident. NASA moved to calm fears Monday: "They won't be infesting space," laughed payload coordinator Rud Moe. It is, after all, worth $5,000 to the agency if the bugs check in and check out. All the same, perhaps the 77-year-old senator should remember to pack...
...Captain's associates, the feud is a sad diversion from Cousteau's message. "It's the saga of all great families," sighs Claude Wesly, 68, who came aboard in 1959. "Time will take care of it. Cousteau's work is immortal...