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Questions about how the fire started and generated such acrid smoke through the DC-9 began to arise even as a makeshift morgue was set up at the airport to identify the bodies, some of which were badly charred. A team from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the FAA and the FBI arrived to sift through the ruins of the plane for clues. NTSB officials suspect that the fire may have been started by a cigarette in a back-cabin lavatory. In Washington, aviation officials debated once again whether more stringent regulations regarding fire-resistant materials inside jetliners should...
Since that time the university--which since its founding in 1861 has been responsible for almost all higher education in the country--has held classes at makeshift locations scattered across the city, most of them private houses and apartments...
...Fury," Mary Snowfire, a young American, comes to stay in London and is forced by circumstances to take a job in a bookstore, living in a small, sparse apartment and scraping to pay her expenses. When she takes pity on a homeless man, who lives in a makeshift shelter in a public common, and lets him sleep on her floor one cold winter evening, he steals all her few possessions and escapes back to his home in Yorkshire. She is driven by an intense compulsion for revenge to bicycle all the way out to Yorkshire and perform a rather gruesome...
...makeshift, third-floor apartment inside Seattle's University Baptist Church, a young woman refugee from El Salvador prepares for the birth of her baby, while down the hall a Salvadoran army deserter waits until he can flee to Canada. In Chicago's Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, a Salvadoran family of six lives above the gym. "If they make us go back," says the father, "we will disappear and die for certain...
...fans attending Sunday's Super Bowl game in Pasadena, though city officials had to do a lot of scrambling. Because the golf course usually reserved for parking at the Rose Bowl was too soggy to use, for instance, they had to convert streets surrounding the stadium into makeshift parking lots. Otherwise, 10,000 or so cars that would normally be parked there might have sunk up to their hubcaps on the fairways...