Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nearly two years ago TWA Flight 800 exploded and fell from the sky off of the coast of Long Island, N.Y. Investigators have since pointed to faulty wiring in the plane's fuel tank but have yet to find conclusive evidence of what caused the crash...
...article, the English professor details the danger EMI pose to aircraft and how EMI from nearby military aircraft and warships might have caused the guidance and electrical systems of Flight 800 to malfunction. This, she says, may have led to the catastrophic explosion that killed all 229 aboard...
...discovered the subspecies 103 years ago, the mouse hibernates for nine months. In summer it emerges only at night, when it commences to bound 4 ft. at a leap through the tall grass, aided by preternaturally long hind legs and an outsize tail that helps stabilize it in flight. "There could be thousands out there, and there could be far fewer; we just don't know," concedes Fish and Wildlife biologist Peter Plage, who has rarely seen the rodent in the wild...
Students learn how to channel natural "fight or flight" reactions into swift defensive tactics meant to subdue the bad guy, summoning in a heartbeat what Levine calls a winning warrior spirit. They escape from choke holds and bear hugs, wrestle away weapons, fight on the ground and fend off multiple attackers. Anything goes, including groin kicks, elbow jabs, head butts, hair pulling, biting and eye gouging. "There are no rules," explains Levine, an L.A. County prosecutor and the highest-ranking American instructor in Krav Maga. "If it's illegal in boxing, we're doing...
...recognize in ourselves the temptation that Paz meant--the liberating flash of decision, the mad, giddy flight. The spectacle of such love is bracing, even when scandalous and self-destructive--or perhaps because of that. In Emma Bovary's case, Flaubert pursued the story past the giddy dash to a sadder place down the road (dead end, suicide...