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...recorder should have preserved every sound in the cockpit during the last 30 minutes of flight, from the voices of the crew to possible instrument noises, like alarms. The flight-data recorder should show precise measurements of altitude, engine speed, heading and other flight conditions from takeoff to the impact of the crash...
...problem, however, extends far beyond Boyertown. Says Bruce Dallas, spokesman for the environmental resources department: "We're just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of impact. Radon could be anywhere." The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that a million American homes may be contaminated, and in May a federal interagency task force reported that indoor radon exposure may cause as many as 30,000 deaths from lung cancer in the U.S. every year...
Shortly after noon on Saturday, July 20, President Ronald Reagan walked out of Bethesda Naval Hospital and into a changed world. With a golden career and a life of good health behind him, the 74-year-old President now faced the full impact of his mortality and a future marked by constant vigilance against the recurrence of his cancer. For the first time in its history, the U.S. faced the prospect of a sitting President who, no matter how dramatic his recovery, would be followed by the shadow of a major disease for the rest of his presidency...
...impact of Reagan's illness on the budget standoff is not likely to be great. Shrugs Republican Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana: "Reagan never was deeply involved in the budget process to begin with." In what could become an explosive new reversal, however, Chief of Staff Regan hinted last week that the White House might change course and back the Senate's call for Social Security cuts after all, should the House fail to come up with some other realistic savings in domestic spending. And even from his sickbed, the President continued to insist that he is unalterably opposed...
...created a small industry. There have been recent novels about the "end," notably Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro, a story of survival in a contaminated world, like Nevil Shute's 1957 best seller On the Beach. A book of drawings by atom bomb survivors, The Unforgettable Fire, had great public impact in 1982 when the first American edition appeared. At least one major poet recently turned his hand to this subject. Robert Penn Warren's New Dawn chronicles the Enola Gay's mission from the takeoff on Tinian, to the flight over the Aioi Bridge--"Color/ Of the world changes...