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DIED. SAMUEL ALDERSON, 90, inventor who created the first automobile crash test dummy, an articulated model of an adult male used to measure car safety; in Los Angeles. After developing dummies to test parachutes and jet ejection seats, he refined his work to suit the needs of the increasingly safety-conscious auto industry, introducing the first dummy specifically for cars, called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 28, 2005 | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...DIED. SAMUEL ALDERSON, 90, inventor for NASA and the U.S. military who created the first crash test dummy-an anthropomorphic duplication of an adult male used to measure car safety; in Los Angeles. After developing dummies to test jet ejection seats and parachutes, he refined his work to suit the needs of the increasingly safety-conscious auto industry, introducing the first dummy specifically for cars, called the "V.I.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...Hope to Japan; there he gathered more than 45,000 Indian POWs and began the offensive that would carry him all the way to the Bay of Bengal before the Japanese withdrawal necessitated their retreat and he himself, in a gesture of terrible bathos, was killed in a plane crash...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Indian Epic Focuses on Gandhi's Rival | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

Alexander “Hitch” Hitchens (Will Smith) gives crash courses in getting to that next level. He is New York’s “date doctor,” schooling classy, good-natured, often schlubby-looking men on the techniques needed to get past the entry level with the girl of their dreams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...Hope to Japan; there he gathered more than 45,000 Indian POWs and began the offensive that would carry him all the way to the Bay of Bengal before the Japanese withdrawal necessitated their retreat and he himself, in a gesture of terrible bathos, was killed in a plane crash...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Indian Epic Focuses on Gandhi's Political Rival | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

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