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...Bert Werjefelt, an inventor of certified aviation safety equipment who performed his own investigation, tells TIME Daily that faulty wiring caused the blaze. And he believes old wiring puts as many as 2,000 similar commercial planes at risk...
...inventor presented his findings to NTSB technical staffers last Friday. But the information was rejected ? even though it was backed up by Vernon Gross, a former NTSB board member who also believes the ValuJet crash was caused by an electrical fire. Werjefelt says the industry has lobbied against his recommendation to replace aging wires. "Replacing that wiring would cost airlines about as much as it would for them to buy new planes," says Werjefelt...
Gardiner also eats a lot of Tabasco Sauce. Through her mother, whose maiden name is McIlhenny, Gardiner is a direct descendant of the inventor of the spicy pepper condiment. The family still makes the sauce on Avery Island, Louisiana, after which Gardiner was named...
...random reasons" that Berners-Lee is known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, he says. "I happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I happened to have the right combination of background." The place was CERN, the European physics laboratory that straddles the Swiss-French border, and he was there twice. The first time, in 1980, he had to master its labyrinthine information system in the course of a six-month consultancy. That was when he created his personal memory substitute, a program called Enquire. It allowed him to fill a document with...
Aside from maybe Arbor Day, it would be hard to think of an event more contrived than the millennium, unless one accepts that history unfolds in tidy hundred- and thousand-year cycles beginning with the birth of Jesus Christ. Or, to be more precise, his briss, which the inventor of the Anno Domini system of reckoning, a Scythian monk named Dennis the Diminutive, calculated--surely errantly--to have taken place on Jan. 1, A.D. 1. At any rate, the history of the past thousand years shows that mass psychology--if not events themselves--tends to behave in predictable ways when...