Word: lancers
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...most dangerous plane to fly in the U.S. Air Force today isn't the screaming F-15 Eagle, the Baghdad-bombing F-117 Nighthawk or the thunderous B-1 Lancer. In fact, it's not a jet at all but the first plane fledgling pilots fly--the powerful, propeller-driven trainer flown by cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Six people--three cadets and their instructor pilots--have died in three crashes of the T-3 Firefly trainer since the planes began flying there in 1995. The T-3's crash record...
...less splendid was the spirit that flooded forth. Before the B.C. High game, I had joined my classmates in the school lobby. We painted our faces blue and gold--the M.C. colors--and dubbed ourselves the "Lancer Loonies." We roped off a section of the Brother Gilbert Stadium bleachers and designated it "The Looney...
...took Beth up on one of the park's wild rides. Last week adventure beckoned again. Both girls had a chance to go on the Montoursville High School French club's excursion to France. Beth, given a choice by her parents, opted out: instead, they bought her a Dodge Lancer. Julia chose the trip. This time, the roller coaster flared so it could be seen for miles and plummeted into the sea, taking Julia Grimm with...
...infobahn hype." He's a self-confessed recovering Doom II addict who has written about everything from Nintendo to nanotechnology; this week he covers Time Warner's all but completed acquisition of Turner Broadcasting. Before joining TIME, Krantz was a senior editor at Mediaweek and an indefatigable free-lancer (his work appeared in such magazines as New York, Rolling Stone and the New Yorker). He is also that lucky man who is happy in his job. "My field," he says, "is the only new form of creative expression to emerge in my lifetime...
While in Europe, Gurwin dug into the scandalous transactions of Italy's Banco Ambrosiano, a story that in 1983 won him an Overseas Press Club Award and produced a book, The Calvi Affair. Returning to the U.S. as a free-lancer in 1988, Gurwin helped break another banking scandal, this one involving the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, or B.C.C.I. His exposa spurred a major federal investigation and led to another book, False Profits (1992), written with Peter Truell. We persuaded him to bring his talents to TIME last June...