Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cogan University Professor of Philosophy Hilary W. Putnam takes a rational view of the new millennium. He says his plans for winter break are as yet unaffected by Y2K, and he plans to take a Jan. 1 flight to Tel-Aviv, Israel, a booking he made assuming New Year's Day will bring minimal problems...
...indisputably the man of the moment around the offices of TIME magazine ? what with him being our Man of the Year and all ? but it's important for us to remind ourselves that not everybody is quite so enamored of him. Take Richard Stallman, for example. Stallman, a top-flight computer programmer and a prominent spokesman for the open source movement, is calling for a boycott of Amazon.com...
Along with others around the world, I was saddened by the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 [WORLD, Nov. 29]. My heart went out to the families of the passengers and crew. I felt the greatest sorrow, however, for the family of relief pilot Gamil el-Batouti. Besides having to deal with the loss of a husband and father, the family had to cope with the anguish of a name destroyed by unproved accusations of mass murder and suicide. The ideal situation would have been to avoid reaching any conclusions before a thorough investigation of the crash had been completed...
QUESTIONS ABOUT FLIGHT...
...flight-data recorder and cockpit voice recorder both stopped working when EgyptAir 990's engines were cut off. It seems that these recorders rely totally on power from the engines. However, logic tells us they should have an independent power source (batteries) for each recorder. That way data would be available up to the last minute. Am I right in assuming they do not have their own power source? ENRIQUE SCHONFELDT Delta...