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Aso recently hurt his own cause by remarking that he did not support the privatization of Japan's huge postal savings system - a key financial reform that Koizumi pushed through in 2005. Koizumi said on Feb. 12 that Aso's comments made him "flabbergasted to the point that I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Prime Minister Aso Faces Ugly Economic Truths | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

In the late 1980s, an actor’s paycheck was directly proportionate to the height of his roundhouse kick, and Jean-Claude Van Damme stomped skull like he was trying to break the bank. But the era of the action star is long gone, and despite Van Dammeâ?...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: JCVD | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Any landing you can swim away from, it seems, is a good one. All 155 passengers and crew of U.S. Airways flight 1549, which was forced to make an emergency water landing in the Hudson River on Jan. 15, survived - making it the rare accident that airlines and the NTSB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning from Flight 1549: How to Land on Water | 1/17/2009 | See Source »

In the case of flight 1549, the pilots of the Airbus A320 made a decision to land in the Hudson River after apparently losing power in both engines. In aviation terminology, that type of landing is referred to as ditching, and as far as jetliners go it remains a fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning from Flight 1549: How to Land on Water | 1/17/2009 | See Source »

"Every other crash - including some of the famous ones, like the one that happened 27 years ago this week with Air Florida in Washington and TWA Flight 800 and the Egypt Air event in 1999 - these were all cases that the plane had clearly crashed in the water, but did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning from Flight 1549: How to Land on Water | 1/17/2009 | See Source »

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