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3  The impactor is released 24 hours before the planned collision and travels the final 500,000 miles on its own, adjusting its trajectory as it goes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Collision | 6/23/2005 | See Source »

Just 45 minutes after leaving Tokyo on the planned one-hour run, the huge U.S.-built Boeing 747 smashed into a mountain in a wilderness area often called the Tibet of Japan's Gumma prefecture. The death toll made it the worst single-plane accident in aviation history. Only the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Last Minutes of JAL 123 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

NATION: Behind the closed doors, scenes of warmth, candor and realism 16 If nothing else, the summit for a moment brought the collision of the two most powerful forces in history down to the human scale of two men coming in from the mountain cold to talk over differences by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents, Dec 2 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

The deaths of the two civil rights crusaders were a serious loss for the liberal opposition movement. Some antiapartheid activists openly wondered about the possibility of foul play. Both Blackburn and Bishop had been targets of harassment and death threats from angry whites who considered them traitors. In 1985 Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: She Brings Us Together | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Consider the formative years of Middle Linebacker Mike Singletary, the team's conscience. He is now the hub of the "46" defense (retired Kamikaze Doug Plank's old jersey number, a monument to mayhem). However, during Singletary 's rookie season in 1981, Ryan summarily yanked him in favor of an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Bears: Sweetness and Might | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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