Word: compartmentalism
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SAN ANTONIO: The FAA may not approve of a TWA pilot's newest safety technique, but it's hard to quarrel with success. Late Tuesday, when Flight 199 was 15 miles southwest of the San Antonio International Airport, a cockpit light indicated that the tail stairwell door of the Boeing...
Jurors were stunned by a videotaped re-enactment of the sinking of Smith's car, shot by a camera mounted inside, from the drowning toddlers' point of view. "The camera had been mounted in the back, situated so that it would be between the two baby seats," Towle says. "The...
The Rodriguez brothers are a study in opposites. Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, the younger one, has a driven, type-A personality, so obsessive about the family's multibillion-dollar empire that he monitors the electric bills and company magazine subscriptions. Gilberto, 56, is the smooth chairman of the board, more cerebral...
When they finally found Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, he was hiding in the dark, lying alone in a space not much bigger than a coffin. For four hours police had searched the unlighted interior of Satian No. 6 (satian is Sanskrit for "supreme truth"), a...
Still, morale and discipline were not always perfectly paired. Gemmill strongly discouraged dating, but officers admit many crew members secretly fraternized. Half a dozen couples went to the captain and announced they had fallen in love. Last month a male and a female crew member videotaped themselves having sex in...