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It was a milk run, a routine bit of island hopping. The Aloha Airlines jet was cruising at 24,000 ft., just 25 miles southeast of the Hawaiian island of Maui, en route from Hilo to Honolulu. Everything seemed normal aboard Flight 243 last Thursday afternoon when suddenly -- with a...
The explosion occurred Sunday afternoon in the boat's battery compartment while the Bonefish was submerged on a routine training mission, said Borton.
Meals are included in the cost of a sleeper, which on overnight runs provides some privacy and chance of rest, though at a price. For a passenger traveling round trip between Chicago and San Francisco, a deluxe bedroom quintuples the fare, to $1,050. The compartment does have a toilet...
McDonald's has cooked up some popular new products too. Its McD.L.T. sandwich, a lettuce-and-tomato burger packed in a two-compartment box to keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool, has proved to be a beefy competitor to Burger King's Whopper and Wendy's...
The accounts of the famine are excruciating to read. Arthur Koestler, then an ardent Communist, was traveling through the Ukraine by train. He recalls women outside his compartment window holding up babies who looked like "embryos out of alcohol bottles." For soup, people boiled rats, nettles, tree bark and the...