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...until about 9 a.m., more than 14 hours after the 747 had gone down, that local firemen reached the site following a difficult climb, while paratroopers began rappelling down ropes from hovering helicopters. One of the fire men, scouring a ravine, suddenly shouted, "There's something moving down there!" He had spotted Ochiai between the seats. She was seriously hurt, with a broken pelvis and arm fractures, but she was conscious. Next the searchers found Keiko Kawakami, 12, caught in a tree and, incredibly, suffering only cuts and torn muscles. Also still alive were Hiroko Yoshizaki, 34, and her daughter...
...prices climb faster than ivy, the leaders, not surprisingly, are the prestigious private schools. Tiny (550 students) Bennington College in Vermont and science giant (4,300 undergraduates) M.I.T. are the costliest. Their tabs, says the College Board: just over $17,000. And the schools believe they are worth it. "We offer extraordinary facilities, extraordinary faculty, extraordinary peers and the best talent available," says M.I.T. Admissions Director Michael Behnke. There is another factor too. "You are paying for prestige," says William Park, professor of English at Sarah Lawrence ($16,285) and a graduate of Princeton...
Until his death in 1984, Adams was photography's mountain man. He has even made a posthumous climb: Adams' autobiography is probably the most expensive book ever to scale the best-seller list. The volume owes its $50 price largely to its 277 pictures, many of them never before exhibited or published. Some have been reproduced with too little contrast, but the photographs throw as much light on Adams' genius as anything in the text. Looking back in an amiable mood, he has produced the kind of memoir given to noting that a 1944 New York City hotel room...
...place at Southern Pacific, accidents caused by human error have been slashed by more than two-thirds, from 911 in 1983 to 285 in 1985. Says Company Vice President William Lacy: "I have read the Constitution many times, and have yet to find where it authorizes a person to climb up on a locomotive and operate a train carrying hazardous material while under the influence of drugs." --By Janice Castro. Reported by Jonathan Beaty/Los Angeles and Joseph J. Kane/Atlanta, with other bureaus
...Bionics are no longer the preserve of the Six Million Dollar Man: soon the elderly or disabled may be able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight-and the wearer's-with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle...