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...line memory book the library compiled to mark its anniversary, William G. Crook Jr. '51 writes of "those crisp, clear mornings at 6 a.m. when a bricklayer would over-turn his four foot by two foot metal trough right under my bedroom window, and proceed to spend the next 30 minutes methodically beating every square inch of it with a shovel wielded over his head...
There is literally no chance of a repeat -- Tiananmen Square is being resurfaced, and is blocked off by a wall of corrugated metal. On the spot where a dead soldier's body was burned by an angry mob, a shopping mall now stands -- a sign that priorities have changed. TIME Asia deputy editor Adi Ignatius says that "people in Beijing are no longer hung up on Tiananmen." Capitalism is more important than democracy now, and that's just fine with the government. But with critics in the West watching closer than ever for signs of a China they can hate...
American Airlines Flight 1420 came in during a thunderstorm just before midnight Tuesday, and the rain-slicked runway just wasn't long enough. The twin-engine Super MD-80 outran 7,200 feet of asphalt, careened past an access road and whipped around a metal tower that peeled back the plane's thin shell on the left side, said one passenger, "like a sardine can." Then the spilled fuel caught fire, and the race to get out was on. Of 139 passengers and six crew members on board, 80 people were injured and taken to hospitals. Fifty-one others...
...hard to imagine that most schools won't become at least as careful as Holland Woods. The debate America had last month over whether metal detectors and sniffing dogs are effective is now virtually irrelevant: expect them in a school near you, starting this September...
After a few trial runs through the halls of the Time & Life Building (and a few raised eyebrows), I rolled out onto the street with my friend Maryanne and a pair of Rollerblade's new Nature skates. A fancy version of the metal strap-ons I wore as a kid, the $190 Natures are in fact hiking boots that clip onto a plastic frame with wheels. The great thing about these skates is that when we came to a slope that seemed too steep, we just popped off the frame and walked down, dignity intact. The two-piece construction felt...