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...theory about the crash of TWA's Flight 800 [NATION, Sept. 30] has been circulating claiming that a missile from a U.S. Navy warship on maneuvers may have downed the aircraft. Although this rumor has been vehemently denied by the Navy and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, what a sorry state of affairs it would be if this proved to be true. It would be one of the biggest and worst cover-ups in U.S. history. VICKI DUCANOIS St. Avertin, France...
...gentle-mannered 70-year-old Cal Tech Ph.D. who predates the space age by a dog's age. Yet every time you watch a live-television feed from distant parts of the earth, chances are the signal has bounced off one of the satellites he helped design for Hughes Aircraft in his 37-year career. "He is uncommonly brilliant," says his biggest fan, younger brother Ben, 63. "He's a national treasure...
...mail network connects research centers around the world with the WHO's headquarters and field offices. The CDC too has a home page, which includes the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and a Travelers' Health section listing everything from assessments of TB risk on aircraft to health threats within specific countries...
...with, these birds have an interesting problem. They have to learn to fly and migrate; since Amy was their first sight on earth, "imprinted" on the goslings as their mom, the seemingly impossible job of getting them airborne is hers. Good thing Dad likes to fool around with ultralight aircraft, which fly at roughly goose speed. Good thing Amy has the gumption to fly one of those contraptions...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Hours after an Iraqi missile was fired at a U.S. fighter, the Pentagon upped the ante by sending F-117 stealth fighters and two B-52s to the Persian Gulf region in response to the latest provocation by Saddam Hussein. "The Pentagon is ready to send in aircraft with pilots, which can obviously be more dangerous than firing cruise missiles," TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says. "But that is the only way to get rid of the Iraqi surface-to-air defense missiles." The move came in response to an Iraqi missile launched...