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...diminishing freedom. Most people don't hunt or collect guns, and so they cannot see the restrictiveness of these laws. Maybe someday people will start getting in record numbers of car accidents. Should legislators then start making car companies install devices in all cars that limits speed to 55 mph? Or rather should we hold people responsible for their own actions (gasp)? The problem isn't everybody, it's the bad drivers. Make it tougher to get a license but don't become Big Brother and hold everyone back...
...pantomime of nasty proctological hydraulics. With his other hand, he flicked the steering wheel to the left in a spasm of menace, as if he meant to run me off the road. A complete stranger wanted me dead - or anyway, he played at it for a moment. At 75 mph, I had blocked the left lane. I had made him late for an IPO, I suppose...
...drone with a 116-foot wingspan that can fly for more than a day, scouring terrain and relaying video to a ground station 3,000 miles away. Last March a Hawk on a simulated mission surprised its manned F-16 chase plane by rolling onto its back at 400 mph, diving and smashing into the California desert. An investigation found that the plane had even prepared to die: It shut its engine down, erased classified computer data and set its flaps for a death spiral. The investigation also found that at the same time, more than 100 miles away...
...possibly began breaking up in midair - before falling into the ocean. That might suggest a last-ditch attempt by the crew to gain control of the stricken craft, which could have broken up under structural stress if the pilot had attempted to pull too quickly out of a 700-mph dive. But the cause of that initial dive - like everything else associated with Flight 990's final moments - remains in the province of speculation, which can't begin to be resolved before the flight data recorders have been analyzed. And those remain on the ocean floor off Nantucket, as stormy...