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...Street, where he is a board member of the Oppenheimer investment firm. At times, Aaron can get carried away with brand names, as when he notes that a character was able to fall asleep on a plane "despite a monster roar from the four Rolls-Royce SNECMA Olympus 593 jet engines." But he manages to keep his plot shifting as fast as the ticks in the price of a takeover stock...
Donald Gilman, the National Weather Service's long-range forecaster, is cautiously hoping that the tropical Pacific's El Nino and the North American jet stream will keep behaving, so that eventually rainstorms will be lured up from the Gulf to drench the croplands. Kentucky and Tennessee last week got a bit of that action. But many more downpours are needed. Iowa's rich loam has only a third of the usual subsoil moisture. Hydrologists have warned New York that if reservoirs do not fill soon, the city could have water shortages this summer. With California reservoirs at 42% capacity...
HONOLULU--A gaping hole ripped open on the right side of a United Airlines jumbo jet carrying 354 people yesterday, sucking as many as 16 passengers to their death 20,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, authorities said...
...Seattle Times, citing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, reported that United Airlines filed a "service difficulty report" in January 1987 on the 19-year-old jet after mechanics found cracks and corrosion around the pylon of the Number 3 engine...
...gasoline thick in the air, the 314 passengers and crew members were rescued unharmed by scientists in small boats from the U.S. research center at Palmer Station, a mile away. But the ship began leaking its 250,000 gal. of oil and spilling cargo, including drums of diesel and jet fuel and tanks of compressed gas, from its deck...