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...company's stock lost altitude, and ValuJet's market value fell 27%. It is unclear whether ValuJet will hit even worse turbulence in the long term. "In the big scheme of things, accidents happen, there's a lot of fanfare, it blows off, and the company goes on," says Kit Darby, president of Air Inc., an Atlanta information service for professional pilots. Although Air Florida eventually went under after a 1982 crash in Washington, Darby believes that ValuJet, with its firmer financial footing, may well absorb this setback. "Historically people don't think about safety," says Darby. "They want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOES AIR SAFETY HAVE A PRICE? | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

Five theses received honorable mentions: John A. Abraham '96 for "Regulation of Phosphoration of Microphthalmia by the c-Kit Signalling Pathway in Melanoma Cells"; Lynn M. Itagaki '96 for "Parody and Narrative Doubling in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: Her Fake Book"; Linsey C. Marr '96 for "A Flourescent Torchiere and Energy Savings at Harvard"; Jeremy L. Martin '96 for "The Mathieu Group M12 and Conway's M13-Game"; and Andrew L. Wright '96 for "'The Seeds of History, the License to Invent': Torquato Tasso Between History and Fiction...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Hoopes Prizes Awarded for Theses | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

Culkin family values were on display as Macaulay Culkin, 15 and last seen onscreen in the bomb Richie Rich, was slapped by his father Kit Culkin for reportedly refusing to do homework. Pat Brentrup, Kit's estranged companion and Mac's mom, then marched in with the cops. The trio headed for family court, where a truce was patched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 6, 1996 | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...Freemen-style ideologies and fraud schemes. Depending on his audience, Schwasinger told listeners that either the Federal Government or the U.S. banking system had lost a class-action suit for defrauding farmers and ranchers. To cash in on their share of the (nonexistent) settlement, he offered them a helpful kit of documents. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF SIEGE | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...breaking news with headline stories updated and enhanced round-the-clock by TIME's correspondents. There will also be forums where subscribers can mix it up with TIME staff members, and online press conferences with celebrities, scientists, politicians, authors, government officials and other newsmakers. (To order a CompuServe starter kit, call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Mar. 18, 1996 | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

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