Word: centralizes
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...didn't take a missile. It didn't take a meteorite, a bullet or even a bird. In fact, the safety board still doesn't know the exact source of the spark that presumably ignited Flight 800's mostly empty central fuel tank, a container similar to those sloshing just below passengers' feet in many commercial carriers. But the trigger's precise identity may be disturbingly moot. In a week of technical testimony considerably more alarming than had been expected, safety-board chairman James Hall made it clear that the fuel, transformed from a stable liquid state to volatile vapors...
...millions of Americans who will soon participate in the second busiest travel week of the year. James McIntyre speaks only for himself. An air-accident investigator, McIntyre observed the hearings as an ex-pilot who flew TWA's New York-Paris route repeatedly with a nearly empty central tank. (Drained to reduce weight, it was filled only for longer flights.) Asked if he'd try it again after the week's disclosures, he replied carefully, "I wouldn't have a problem--in the wintertime...
Scientific ideas don't die, they just fade away into popular culture. Psychoanalysis is as dead a science as alchemy. But its central idea, that somehow catharsis leads to cure, lives on--rages on--in Oprah and Geraldo and Ricki Lake and the whole steaming psychic stew that is our confessional culture...
...Dalai Lama's very refusal to be dictatorial and his calm assurance that Tibetan Buddhist centers, unlike their Roman Catholic counterparts, "have no central authority" and are "all quite independent" have left him somewhat powerless as all kinds of questionable things are done in the name of his philosophy (a prominent lama was slapped with a $10 million sexual-harassment suit in California). And his wish to make peace among the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism has so infuriated a few that earlier this year three members of his inner circle were found murdered in their beds, apparently...
Lions and Vikings and Bucs, Oh My! The NFC playoffs will be played on Central time as four teams from that division make the big dance. With dramatic wins, the Vikings and Lions are in, while the Bucs secured their first home playoff game since the days of Leroy Selmon. Complete coverage at CNNSI...