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...every direction, nothing but tiny pieces of debris. The jet lay unrecognizable, "like a huge pane of shattered glass." And scattered among the shards were the people he had come for. He found an eye, a heart, a jawbone. Part of a hand embedded in an armrest. Poirier tries the word hellish to describe the scene, then takes it back...
...crew, to get two divers down for about 35 minutes and back up. The divers are connected to the boat with hoses, and video cameras attached to their helmets relay what they see. When a diver finds something, it is too dangerous to kneel and retrieve it because the jet is now a field of razor blades. One diver holds the other by the back of his suit and eases him down...
...like Suitcase Venus, above left), lighters or Hershey wrappers--is owned by such big shots as Jasper Johns and Claes Oldenburg. The late artist may develop a younger group of fans now that he's sharing wall space with his famous grandson. Sure, Beck's artworks (that's OK Jet, above right) don't hold up against Al's. But then Al's videos won't hit MTV anytime soon...
...colleagues and readers. We're therefore pleased to announce that he is being officially recognized as a celestial object. On Aug. 8 the International Astronomical Union voted to change the name of the asteroid previously known as 1992WY4 to the 7829 Jaroff. Eleanor Helin, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who discovered the asteroid in 1992, recommended the name to honor Jaroff's "well-researched, insightful articles and essays on scientific subjects" and his efforts to "draw attention to the issue of NEOs [near earth objects] and the potentially catastrophic consequences for our civilization should...
There are 179 MD-11s currently in service, 119 of which are dedicated to passenger travel. The jet, a descendant of the DC-10, has technology that allows it to be steered during an emergency by alternating thrust on the two underwing engines even if the center engine in the tail explodes and severs all hydraulic control lines for the rudders and elevators--as in the case of a DC-10 that crash-landed in an Iowa cornfield in 1989. The Swissair MD-11 successfully underwent a thorough inspection just over a year ago, and Swissair's safety-and-maintenance...