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Mexican author Carlos Fuentes spoke about his new book, The Years with Laura Diaz, his literary influences, and Mexican politics at the Askwith Lecture Hall on Friday evening...
...sweep survivors out of a plane: 37% of the time they did not deploy correctly. Some passengers were momentarily unable to get out of Flight 006 when a slide deployed and knocked them sideways. "It seemed like forever before we got untangled and away from the unbearable heat," says Diaz...
...Singapore Airlines Flight 006 made the sharp turn onto the runway at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in the middle of a punishing storm on Oct. 31, John Diaz settled comfortably into his first-class seat in the Boeing 747, ready for takeoff. But Flight 006 had turned onto the wrong runway, and suddenly Diaz and the 178 other people on board slammed to earth as the 747 erupted into a giant, terrifying fireball, breaking into three large jagged pieces. Flight 006 ended its last journey 8,000 ft. from where it began, a burning, cracked hulk...
...more than 90 people, including Diaz, managed to survive the crash and conflagration. And so, while the investigation continues into why Flight 006 made that wrong turn and collided with construction equipment, aviation experts are also trying to learn how more people could have been saved...
Charlie's Angels also offers us cute, peppy Cameron Diaz as the most adorable of the Angels, Drew Barrymore as the most vulnerable of them (she seems actually to be acting now and then, which is probably a mistake in this context) and Lucy Liu as the most ferocious, albeit in an interesting, crabby way. Under the guidance of a music-video director who is known simply as McG, they all manage to not quite fall out of their costumes numerous times...