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Swissair Flight 111, an MD-11 jumbo jet built by McDonnell Douglas in 1991, left New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to Geneva, Switzerland, promptly at 8:18 p.m. E.T. Not quite an hour later, at 9:14, the Swiss pilot, Urs Zimmermann, radioed, "Pan! Pan! Pan!...We have smoke in the cockpit" to the control tower in Moncton in New Brunswick, Canada. (Pan is an international distress signal less urgent than Mayday.) The pilot requested diversion to Boston, but when told that Halifax, only 70 miles away, was nearer, he responded, "Prefer Halifax." When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Safe Harbor | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...play faster, slower, higher and lower notes--but never out of tune. "You're always in time, in key and playing the right notes," says Egozy, who admits that, mellifluous as it is, "it's not John Coltrane." Still, like flight simulators that let you pilot a jumbo jet, Harmonix's music simulator, he says, "takes the hard part away from music, the mechanical part. We're giving you the fun of it without having to work for it." Who says you have to suffer if you want to sing the blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Future Shocks | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Give me the 411 on Sex class. I hear some crazy stuff goes in that jumbo core class. Catch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: dear dr. know | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...between 1936 and 1939, have a sober grandeur that continues to seize and hold the ear six decades later; the Rostropovich set, recorded in 1991, is a larger-than-life exercise in musical oratory that bears the same relationship to "normal" cello playing that one of Chuck Close's jumbo portraits does to a black-and-white snapshot. Ma's strong, sensitive playing falls somewhere between these two expressive poles, but it isn't a matter of splitting the difference: each set is a priceless document...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At The Top Of His Powers: Yo-Yo Ma | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...addition to food, Felix Tollinche '99 said"basic household supplies that college studentsnever buy but are always in need of," such aslaundry detergent and jumbo-garbage bags arealways in demand come Junior Parent's Weekend...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Parents' Weekend Produces Joy, Terror | 3/6/1998 | See Source »

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