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...four passengers aboard the eight year-old American-made helicopter were pronounced dead at the scene...
...great Gallic tradition of adventurous athleticism turns out to be very much alive. Guy Delage, 42, (known as the "mad swimmer"), waded ashore on the Caribbean island of Barbados after swimming across the Atlantic from the Cape Verde Islands. Delage swam for 10 hours a day, then crawled aboard an accompanying raft to rest. Afflicted by seasickness and often spurred on by the presence of hungry sharks, he completed his 2,400-mile journey in less than two months...
Widener Library is named after Harry Elkins Widener, who died aboard the Titanic...
People at NASA, however, are quite content to continue to do science aboard manned spacecraft. They've been doing it for years with the Space Shuttle. Scientific instruments are normally carried on the shuttles, but the astronauts are not needed to run the experiments. Aside from a few maintenance-oriented missions, for which a human presence is required, Space Shuttle missions merely do what an unmanned launch could do--at many times the cost. Using most of NASA's resources on the shuttles and Freedom means that unmanned science experiments and missions are underfunded...
...countries, the U.N. and the European Union, but Japan accepted aid from only 15 of them. Tokyo also turned down most offers of help from the U.S. military based in the country, though the American forces have tons of emergency supplies stockpiled and even offered to accommodate refugees aboard an aircraft carrier. Teams of doctors from the U.S. and France arrived to warnings that they could not practice medicine without Japanese licenses...