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...Shortly afterward, Boeing sent a worldwide advisory from Seattle suggesting that all carriers using 747s "may wish" to follow the Japanese example by visually inspecting the tail fin and rudder structures on these planes. The company also suggested an inspection of the rear bulkhead. A spokesman for the U.S. Air Transport Association said that "everybody will follow those recommendations to a T." The procedure, which should take about two hours, can be done between flights and during refueling stops...
...drove Nationalist forces south of the Yangtze and helped push them off the mainland to their Taiwan redoubt. A lull in the fighting permitted him to travel briefly to Peking for the ceremony at Tiananmen Square celebrating the founding of the People's Republic on Oct. 1, 1949. Soon afterward, Deng was named political commissar of China's vast Southwest Military Administrative Region and was based in his high school city of Chongqing. For the next three years he directed the region's transformation to a Communist society, including land redistribution and campaigns aimed at checking corruption, bureaucracy and waste...
...Christmas Day she visited Nelson Mandela for 40 minutes at Pollsmoor Prison, eight miles outside of Cape Town. Afterward she told reporters that the holiday visit had been the saddest in the 23 years her husband has been in jail. Reason: the 67-year-old black nationalist leader has been kept in solitary confinement in the prison hospital while recovering from a prostate-gland operation he underwent last month. "Christmas has ceased to be of any specific meaning to the oppressed people of this country," she declared. "Christmas has become a day of mourning...
...poignant picture, not least of all because the child, plump, sleeping with his mouth open, would be dead soon afterward. He died at 4 o'clock one morning in the motel room occupied by his mother, of malnutrition, or dehydration, or congenital defects--the precise cause is no doubt listed somewhere in the medical records...
...apparent differences, physicists have long believed that a sort of common blood unites the four forces. They are convinced that at the moment of the Big Bang, the violent birth of the universe, only a single, all-powerful force existed, and that not until a fraction of a second afterward did this force split into four. Like knights in pursuit of a visionary grail, scientists for decades have sought what they call--with a bit of tongue in cheek--a Theory of Everything (TOE), a single mathematical model that would describe the fundamental unity of the forces. So far, however...