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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...access road and whipped around a metal tower that peeled back the plane's thin shell on the left side, said one passenger, "like a sardine can." Then the spilled fuel caught fire, and the race to get out was on. Of 139 passengers and six crew members on board, 80 people were injured and taken to hospitals. Fifty-one others did not require hospital treatment. Nine are dead -- the first on a major U.S. airline in nearly a year-and-a-half...
...wrong. The flight had been delayed two hours in Dallas, and arrived in Little Rock at the wrong time: Just as a storm began buffeting the airport with lightning, hail and winds gusting to 75 mph. Yet no distress call from the plane reached the tower. National Transportation Safety Board investigators are on the scene, and they would seem to have one question to ask: Why did Flight 1420 attempt a landing...
...others record the reply, "There is a God, and you need to follow along God's path." In either case, he murdered her; and in her commitment teens see a vital challenge to their Christian identity. A posting by a Florida girl cyber-named Marrinn on a Christian bulletin board is typical: "I don't drink. I don't smoke. I've never done drugs. But I haven't totally pledged all of my being to God. When I heard [Cassie's] story I realized she gave up everything. She DIED for Him... Would I have done the same...
Good question, Kenny. I belonged to a group of 1,050 New Yorkers who participated in the annual Principal for a Day program run jointly by the Board of Education and a nonprofit group called PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning). The idea is simple: get corporate and civic leaders involved with the city's public schools. This year's participants ranged from First Principal Hillary Clinton to actor Billy Baldwin. The program is part p.r., part guilt alleviation for well-heeled New Yorkers and part real insight into the New York City school system, which...
...ships "Tragic" and "Blunder." Disney's stock price has been taking on water. Yet the company still has enough land in central Florida to add three more parks. Indeed, there are rumors that a sports-themed park (Disney owns ESPN and several pro teams) is on the drawing board...