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...trouble there was; scores of police ran through the streets in formation, toting their rifles and swathed in riot gear as protesters either ran from the confrontation or embraced it, throwing rocks and bottles at nearby officers. The Staples Center and its immediate periphery were locked down, trapping many convention-goers inside the building. Various bystanders and curiosity-seekers were stunned by the force used by police, telling reporters they hadn't expected such a vigorous display of law and order...
...crew's exhaustive simulator training would have kicked in as soon as the problem emerged. Marty would have tried to hold the plane steady, but it would have been a wrestling match. Someone in the plane reported that they were unable to retract the landing gear. With the gear down and dragging on the plane's aerodynamics, and with two engines apparently failing, the Concorde's fate was sealed. "The Concorde is a technical masterpiece, but with two engines failing and a fire on takeoff, the crew had little real hope," says former pilot Manton Fain. About a minute after...
...commerce space or last winter in the B2B space, when hundreds of start-ups were launched and dozens managed to go public before NASDAQ tanked. But the venture capitalists swear that this time it's different. For one thing, these are real companies making high(est) technology gear for blue-chip customers. More important, some companies have been showing impressive growth and real profits. JDS Uniphase last week announced quarterly net income of $114 million; sales increased 173%, to $524 million. Corning earned $525 million last year on sales of $4.7 billion. (Optical components are 70% of its sales.) Unlike...
Olympia's rock scene used to be Seattle's unpopular sister, sequestered in a state capital of 40,000 with a Norman Rockwellish downtown specializing in hiking gear and Italian sodas, and a local college, Evergreen, that is one of America's most left-wing and unconventional fonts of higher learning. While Seattle's bands headbanged on MTV in the alternative-rock heyday of the early '90s, Olympia was locked in her bedroom reading postmodern gender theory and writing songs on her eight-track for college-radio cognoscenti. Now that Seattle's grunge empire has been sacked and burned...
During its takeoff from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, Air France Flight 4590 heaves itself off the ground, only to find its engines on fire and landing gear stuck. The pilot is unable either to abort the takeoff or make it to nearby Le Bourget airport...