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Before leaving Malé, I walk clear around the island, stopping at the monument to the tetrapods, the name given to the interlocking concrete blocks that form the towering breakwaters protecting the city's most vulnerable flanks. Behind the breakwaters I hear the crash of invisible waves, in front the laughter of children swimming in the intensely blue water of a narrow canal. I wonder, What will the Maldives be like a couple of centuries from now? Will its corals have adapted to warmer conditions, as some think possible, or will they be forced to seek refuge in artificially maintained reefs...
...weather is expected to be the main focus of National Transportation Safety Board investigators, who rushed to Dallas to seek the cause of the accident. While some witnesses reported that lightning had struck Flight 191, a board spokesman doubted that this would have caused the crash. "Lightning doesn't normally take an airplane down," he said. "It hasn't happened in many, many years...
...shift from head to tail almost instantaneously, the condition is nearly impossible for a pilot to handle at relatively slow takeoff and landing speeds. Recent studies have cited wind shear as a factor in at least 27 commercial aircraft accidents since 1964. The most notable: an Eastern Airlines 727 crash on landing at New York's JFK Airport in 1975 that killed 113, and a Pan American 727 accident after takeoff from New Orleans in 1982 that left 153 dead. President Reagan was in Air Force One in August 1983 when it landed at Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base...
...AIDS virus was announced in Washington, Health Secretary Heckler vowed that blood-screening tests would be available in record time. Medical scientists made good on that promise within nine months. Still, the fact that the test kits, manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, Electro-Nucleonics and Litton Bionetics, were produced in crash programs prompted many fears about the reliability and precision of the tests. Of particular concern was the chance that too many blood samples would register an incorrect positive reading, falsely suggesting the presence of AIDS antibodies. Last week, an NIH conference on the blood tests brought reassuring news...
Meanwhile, Cincinnati's attendance had crash-dived from 2.6 million at the 1976 crest of the Red Machine to 1.2 million in 1983. For his turnstile appeal, certainly not his .259 batting average, Rose was called home last August. He singled and doubled in his first game, slid himself into a perfect mudball, and hit .365 the rest of the year. He could take his time with Cobb after that, and he has. Platooning at first base with another reclaimed icon, Tony Perez, 43, Rose sees to the right-handed pitchers. Though a switch hitter, he bats predominantly left-handed...