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...into the cause of Saturday's crash, has been sent to National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington for analysis. Recovery workers are continuing to look for the cockpit voice recorder. Salvage workers have filled body bags with pieces of human remains, but have found nothing larger than a knee among the shattered remains of the plane. TIME's Greg Anapu reports from Miami that the crash site is proving very difficult to search. "The water is dark, muddy and murky, with virtually no visibility," Anapu reports. "Rescuers are reportedly braving alligators and snakes in the area, and officials...
...into the cause of Saturday's crash, has been sent to National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington for analysis. Recovery workers are continuing to look for the cockpit voice recorder. Salvage workers have filled body bags with pieces of human remains, but have found nothing larger than a knee among the shattered remains of the plane. TIME's Greg Anapu reports from Miami that the crash site is proving very difficult to search. "The water is dark, muddy and murky, with virtually no visibility," Anapu reports. "Rescuers are reportedly braving alligators and snakes in the area, and officials...
...explored to make them really interesting. Then we encounter the overused theme of an ex-sports star who feels his best days are gone forever: Ray's son Virgil, once a college football star, has become embittered--and estranged from his wife and two daughters--through brooding over the knee injury that wrecked his dreams. It is, of course, up to Earl to teach him to get over himself and go on, and he does so, but not in such a way as to make the audience feel anything...
THREE YEARS AFTER HIS TRIUMPH IN THE GULF WAR, GENERAL H. Norman Schwarzkopf was feeling invincible. But in March 1994, uncomfortable with nagging tendinitis in one knee, he stopped by the MacDill Air Force Base Hospital in Tampa, Florida. While there, he decided to visit the base urologist for an exam. "I feel something not quite right," the doctor said, after making a routine rectal exam. "But if it's cancer, I can tell 90% of the time, and I don't think...
EUGENE TONI, 46, Alexandria, Va. A sergeant in the 101st Airborne and leader of a sniper team, he stepped on a land mine in Vietnam on Oct. 9, 1970, and lost both legs below the knee. That is also the date the military believed he died. In 1990, during a visit to the memorial, Toni, who now works for naval procurement, was searching for the names of friends who had died in Vietnam. "I just flipped back to the Tonis, and the directory had my name. They had my rank and service right, except that I was alive. I showed...