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Instants later, the jet smashed through a fence at the end of the runway. It crossed a busy highway, hit a truck and two cars, rammed into a shed and finally came to rest in a stubble field. Awash in jet fuel, the aircraft quickly caught fire. Said Irving Blatt, a professor at Rutgers University, who was sitting across from one of the stewardesses: "I saw the horror on her face as she looked at the back of the plane. When I turned, I saw the smoke and flames-at first outside and then almost immediately in the cabin...
Harvard events have a way of attracting media attention seemingly out of proportion to any standards of significance. When a few students at Eliot House took a fancy to dressing up for dinners last year, the national press was awash with the phenomenon complete with large glossy pictures, and contemplative columns reflecting on just what this meant for the future of our republic. More tongues may have clucked in national despair when Harvard spoke of tearing down its Ivy than when Reagan took a budget are to federal student loan programs...
...priests do not take a vow of poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves, in which Greeley seems bent upon airing the dirtier linen of the church he professes to love and serve. Not only do Greeley's Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that his novels are not so much about sex as about love-God's love for sinful humans. Like biblical stories of adultery and incest, he argues, they demonstrate how God "draws straight with crooked...
...history-making fossils were found last fall in the Awash River valley of the Afar desert in north-central Ethiopia, only 45 miles south of Lucy's burial grounds. Clark's 15-member expedition is the first scientific team to dig in the remote, fiercely inhospitable valley since the fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia began to ease three years ago. Even so, the scientists took protective measures, hiring Ethiopian game wardens and rifle-bearing Afar tribesmen who also toted knives half the size of machetes...
That additional evidence could also come from the Awash River valley. Last fall's expedition found the area Uttered with fossils - remnants of elephants, hippos and pigs -some of them dating back 6 million years. Says Anthropologist Clifford Jolly of N.Y.U.: "There seems to be enough material there for 20 expeditions." One of them will be led by Clark. This fall, he plans to return to Awash in hopes of push ing "knowledge of human origins even deeper into the past." And perhaps un earthing even humbler skeletons in the human closet. - By Frederic Golden. Reported by Tom Johnson/San...