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...which might be called technology-jinxed. In New York City last Monday, the three big area airports briefly ceased business. The cause was a bomb threat to the obscure yet vital New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), where 200 air-traffic controllers usher planes through a 150-mile radius around New York City. "There was reason to believe the caller had knowledge of the building and how it worked," says Phil Barbarello, head of the local traffic controllers' union. So the control center evacuated, and for 75 minutes no planes landed: tens of thousands of passengers across...
...Monday to withdraw all heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. "If the bombardment continues," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller, "the Bosnian Serbs might not come to the Geneva peace talks on Friday." The U.N. had demanded that over 300 artillery pieces and tanks be pulled out of the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around the city, but as of today, only about 20 weapons appeared to have been withdrawn. (The Serbs say they need more time, fearing that a complete withdrawal would leave their brethren in the suburbs of Sarajevo unprotected.) Technically, Waller says, a Bosnian Serb boycott of the talks...
Hurricane Luis, a 700-mile-wide tempest with winds as fast as 175 miles per hour, is expected to hit Puerto Rico late today or early Wednesday. For days, frightened residents and tourists have been crowding airports and air charter companies. "Everybody here is kind of frantic," reports TIME's Lorelei Albanese in San Juan. "Bottled water is almost completely sold out, and batteries and other supplies are being snapped up as soon as they are put on the shelves." Albanese says the ferocity of the storm has reminded many Puerto Ricans of Hurricane Hugo, which caused more than...
...told him about a radical new idea--cutting out the useless pieces of his lungs to give him more room to breathe--Henry jumped at the chance to be Cooper's first patient. Now, two years after the surgery, he plays golf, rides a stationary cycle and walks a mile every...
...first proposed that people and apes had a common ancestor. Kanapoi and Allia Bay, the sites where Leakey and Walker made their discoveries, lie about a day's drive north of Nairobi along the shores of Lake Turkana in the East African Rift Valley. An 1,800-mile-long gash in the surface of the earth, the Rift has yielded many important clues to early human history, because of its unique geology. Layers of sediment preserved animal specimens, while the volcanic eruptions that periodically shook the valley produced ash and lava whose radioactive elements make the fossils easy to date...