Word: crashing
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...case of Fearless, the cataclysm is a plane crash. Among the survivors is Max Klein (Jeff Bridges), an architect. He comes out of that field leading a young boy and cradling a baby in his arms. We learn later that he led others to safety as well, despite the fact that his partner and best friend died horribly just a few feet from him. Max's opposite number is Carla Rodrigo (Rosie Perez), whose baby was wrenched from her arms and killed on impact...
According to the numbers, each of us has a lifetime risk of one in 30,000 of death by asteroid--roughly equivalent to our chances of dying in a plane crash...
Kirkland House resident Carlos A. Gonzales '94 was walking with a friend along Dunster Street when he heard "a loud bang," which he thought at first was a car crash. A few seconds later, there was the "sound of electricity" and a larger explosion displaced the cover with red and orange flames...
These days, I am generally regarded by my friends as the one to call when their Macs crash. I can talk SIMMs, SCSI ports and partitioning with the best of them, and I actually do rebuild my desktop on a regular basis. As I was babbling happily away to my friend Rebecca last year about expansion cards versus junking her old SE, she looked at me and said: "You know, Lori, on the surface you're this mellow History concentrator who writes for the Crimson, but inside there's computer geek just dying...
...Atari had deals lined up to make video games out of Peanuts, Mickey Mouse and the Muppets. Then in 1982 Atari licensed E.T. for $23 million and proceeded to turn it into one of the worst video games ever made. The resulting disaster, known in the industry as "the crash of 1984," brought Atari into bankruptcy court and nearly dragged down its corporate parent, Warner Communications, as well. Some of those unsold E.T. cartridges can still be found on the dusty back shelves of retail stores...