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...thousands of people descend upon Harvard Yard today, expect tight security enforced by the U.S. Secret Service, the South African Secret Service and the local police...
Four months after the ValuJet plane went down, a Federal Express DC-10 was forced into an emergency landing at Newburgh, N.Y., because of fire in its cargo hold. The captain reported smoke at the same altitude as Swissair 111--33,000 ft.--and began to descend. Eighteen minutes later, the FedEx crew was sliding down ropes and chutes from the plane, which burned steadily for more than three hours after landing. The cause of the fire was never pinpointed, but investigators discovered such undeclared items as aerosol cans and plastic bottles containing acidic liquids, prompting the National Transportation Safety...
About 5,000 students high school age and older will descend on Harvard during the next few days to begin eight weeks of sweltering study at the Harvard Summer School...
...Bikini, Biloxi, Bimini and Miami, they are waiting for us to descend. Yes, we came from every place, all of these places. That is where we will go back to, only with a difference. Our differences will become their similarities, and vice versa. Did the place change or did we? Both of them changed and did not change. Nothing changed, and that changes everything. How soon some of us will assimilate, standing out from the crowd, in perfect conformity with the rest of us. We can take or leave us, but they will welcome...
Around noon on Monday, Indian soldiers descend on villages just a few miles from the desert test range and order the pacifist Bishnoi herdsmen, who refuse to kill animals or cut down trees, to evacuate. At precisely 3:45 p.m., three devices explode in five seconds: a normal fission bomb, a low-yield bomb for tactical battlefield use and something like a hydrogen bomb, which U.S. officials later insist could have been only a less powerful "boosted" weapon using tritium fuses to amplify the fission chain reaction. Altogether they unleash around 80 kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful...