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...NTSB issued a report finding that the FAA bore partial responsibility for last year's accident in which the top of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore apart in midair, killing a flight attendant. The FAA allegedly neglected to monitor carefully Aloha's maintenance procedures and failed to enforce closer inspections in the airline industry even after stress cracks had been found in older planes...
Major help in studying the earth's environment is expected to emerge from a project being planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Called Mission to Planet Earth, the program would consist of a series of satellite flights designed to monitor the earth with sensitive instruments that measure such vital signs as temperature, winds and atmospheric chemistry. These readings would add immensely to the knowledge gained from high- resolution photography alone. The object is to understand the planet's dynamics well enough to anticipate ecological disasters -- and find ways to forestall them. The project was suggested...
...Here you can do as you diddly darn," says Gerry Bloomquist, 65, a retired dress-shop keeper from Minnesota who is wintering in the outskirts of Quartzsite, Ariz. She sips a drink, relaxing in front of her 33-ft. Holiday Monitor recreation vehicle, or RV, in a lawn chair set on a piece of Astroturf. "My grass," she calls it. While the sun, rattlesnakes and tarantulas bed down, Bloomquist and tens of thousands of other tanned retirees enjoy another happy hour parked out in the desert, gazing at the mountains, puttering around their mobile homes, filling hummingbird feeders, thriftily sidestepping...
...last week, he wears a top hat and spectacles, carries a white cane and resembles an elongated Jiminy Cricket. All around him are people he might befriend, if only he could break through their obsessive isolation with entertainment machines -- a Walkman, a boom box, a video camera, a TV monitor. Irwin himself carries a remote control, purportedly hooked up to the tiers of curtains onstage and the sound system that sporadically blares Tea for Two while he attempts a soft-shoe...
...victim of Yanqui aggression. In the end, Washington managed only to devastate an economy that was both prosperous and closely tied to the U.S. "We have in fact severely damaged the Panamanian economy," says former President Jimmy Carter, who will lead an international delegation of observers to monitor the election...