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...weather was humid but not unusual as Flight 123 lifted off runway C-15-L at Haneda and climbed through a light cloud cover. At the controls was Captain Masami Takahama, 49, who had flown for JAL since 1966 and was so highly regarded that he had been transferred from international to domestic routes four years ago so that he could help train new pilots. The rest of the crew included a co-pilot, a flight engineer and twelve cabin attendants. There were 509 passengers aboard the 747SR, a short-range version of the jumbo. JAL and All Nippon Airways...
Lamented Marta Cruz, another Red Cross worker: "We don't have the right medicines, there is no clothing, and the ground is humid. Infection is going to spread." The only food on hand for injured survivors was yogurt and sweet biscuits known locally as frena. Julian Ramírez, a mechanical engineer who had lost his five-year-old daughter in the calamity, feared that hundreds of additional survivors would die for lack of care. "They give us yogurt and frena. What good is that?" he asked...
...have seen teachers temporarily stop class to mop the puddles of sweat off the floor in order to prevent us, the dancers, from injuring ourselves through slipping. While I know that it is indeed possible, although extremely tiring, stifling, and ridiculously sweaty to take dance classes in a hot, humid room, I have never danced in or attended a single summer performance which was not air conditioned...
...roof set, where stone gargoyles gaze down malevolently, there's the Phantom's Lair - a dark catacomb where the deformed genius composes on his grand piano to the steady accompaniment of water dripping into a stagnant, green pond. The space, illuminated by hundreds of candles, was so humid that Butler compares it to an enormous microwave. "I wear prosthetics on my face, which melt if it gets too hot," he says. "That takes five hours to put on, so if it gets too warm, the whole day stops and we start again." In the next studio under a musty cover...
...humid morning in Brisbane three days later, Latham embraced his mentor and Medicare's founder, former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, before unveiling the party's trump card, Medicare Gold, a massive extension of Medicare to give free hospital care to people over 75. Adding extra childcare support and pension reform to his growing list of sweeteners, it was one of Latham's high points, and his audience left bolstered - "I feel proud to be a Labor supporter again," said teacher Robin Boyne. Latham's other key message that day was simple: "I'm ready to lead...