Word: crash
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...still something of an acquired taste. You have to be wary of your peripherals (getting some older printers to work is quite a headache). And tech support can be hard to find in a Windows world. But what you get in return is a very fast, very cheap, crash-free system that can be installed on as many computers as you like. Pay attention to the penguin: he's going places...
...death of R.-and-B. singer Aaliyah in a small-plane crash last August was a sad event for everyone in the music world, but it has had a particularly bad aftertaste for one small business: Butlers' Funeral Homes and Crematorium in Nassau, the Bahamas. Loretta Turner, the funeral-home director, told TIME that Virgin Records, the singer's label, is reneging on a verbal agreement to pay the costs of preparation and transport of the bodies of Aaliyah and eight members of her entourage who died in the crash. The mortuary...
...that they will not honor the agreement," says Turner, who has even appealed for help to the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, to no avail. Robert Spragg, an attorney who is representing Aaliyah's parents, Michael and Diane Haughton, in a lawsuit against Virgin and other defendants stemming from the crash, says the Haughtons were also told by Virgin executives that they would be reimbursed for their funeral expenses, but have received nothing. A Virgin representative declined to comment...
...established contacts with the anti-terror officials of France when I covered that country's crackdown on Algerian-based Islamic radicals. In 1994, that group had hijacked a passenger plane that it intended to crash into the center of Paris. The French thwarted that dress rehearsal for 9/11. Since then, the same counter-terrorism officials have provided me and the magazine with much exclusive information, including their pre-emptive sweeps of al-Qaeda networks and their warnings that al-Qaeda was establishing bases in North America. They've been invaluable to TIME's coverage of al-Qaeda terror...
...Passengers injured in the derailment near Washington of an Amtrak passenger train, a crash investigators say may have been caused by heat-induced railroad damage...