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At 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, the radio tower at Metropolitan Airport cleared Flight 255 for departure. Captain John R. Maus, 57, a veteran pilot with 20,000 hours of flight experience, 2,000 of them in MD-80s, taxied the plane onto runway 3-Center North. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sifting Through the Wreckage | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Driving a pack of dogs across icy tundra, racing past jagged mountains and over frozen rivers is something that most Cambridge natives just don't do, but Susan Howlett Butcher has done all three and won the grueling 1100-plus-mile Iditarod race between Nome and Anchorage in the bargain...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Racing the Iditarod | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

DAVE, A suitemate, escapes this deprivation. Hulking and sweaty after soccer, he hunches over a row of glass vials, peering carefully at the bird bones clinking inside. Making a choice he pours a crisscross pile of bones into my hand. They're a creamy pebble grey, polished and crisp. Dave...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Mind and Body | 3/18/1987 | See Source »

Then, in 1985, Jagged Edge appeared. It was predictable and crudely made, but it was an old-fashioned mystery movie with courtroom dueling, shifting romantic allegiances, an imperiled heroine and the lure of suave menace. More important, Jagged Edge was a hit, which convinced Hollywood that the thriller genre could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Ghost of Alfred Hitchcock | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

As the week progressed, J.J. continued to perform spectacularly. It followed the mast up to the crow's nest and found an undamaged brass mast light. The robot looked into the windows of the officers' quarters and propelled itself through the first-class entranceway to glimpse the ship's gymnasium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: J.J. Tours The Titanic | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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