Word: grounds
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...Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...foresight didn't save him. On Feb. 22, 1995, Fischer, 29, and Cadet Mark Dostal, 20, were killed when their T-3 corkscrewed into the ground about 50 miles east of the academy. Dostal, of Moraga, Calif., was a junior at the academy, where he had racked up scholastic and athletic honors. "Mark wanted to fly from the time he was a little boy," says his mother Shirley. "He thought his best chance to fly was to go to the academy." He had spent 11 hours learning...
...high." Pace, who had spent 17 hours in the T-3, was flying last June 25 with his instructor, Captain Glen Comeaux, 31, when their T-3 sputtered during a turn at about 500 ft. It quickly entered a spin and exploded in a fireball just after hitting the ground two miles east of the academy airfield. Their plane had been written up by pilots 10 times for engine problems, including one during the flight immediately before the fatal trip. The Air Force said the engine was running at impact, although it was producing so little power that the propeller...
...characteristic of CAT. NASA plans to test the device next spring but does not know when it will be operational. In the meantime, the FAA is improving the pilot reporting system by equipping planes with software that measures even mild turbulence and flashes data to the ground, where computers collate the information and beam it back up to all planes in the area...
Think back on the fun of that first snowball fight in the yard, and do it again. (That's right, upperclass students, the next time it snows, go to the Yard and beat up first-years). Look up from the ground every once in a while and see the beautiful campus that surrounds us because before you know it, most of you will be trapped in some nasty urban center, working a job and regretting that you did not try more to enjoy your college experience...