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...wealth of material at the crash site that may provide some vital clues to what happened. The plane's two black boxes--the flight-data recorder and cockpit voice recorder--have been found. And a robotic device located at least part of the highly suspect stabilizer on the ocean floor...
...describes his emotions in terms that are distant, spare. Often he describes his actions and reactions as if from the outside, as a biographer might. The "I's" could be changed to "he's." When explaining his opinions, he often quotes himself. But beneath these simple phrases lies an ocean of emotion. In each description of an encounter, Wiesel embeds a new clue and connection to his own motivation and intensity...
...speed and efficiency of the investigation that has taken place since Alaska Airlines flight 261 spiraled into the Pacific Ocean on January 31 should make white-knuckle fliers feel a little safer. "This is a great aspect of U.S. civil aviation," says TIME Washington correspondent Mark Thompson. "Day one you have an accident, and day 10 you have an MD-80-series airworthiness directive." On Thursday the FAA ordered an "urgent airworthiness directive" for all 1,100 MD-80-series jets similar to the one that went down en route from Mexico to San Francisco. The move follows a deep...
...fact, the only dream of which I have a vague recollection comes from my childhood and involved me riding on a glass-bottom submarine with Captain Crunch, who was doing lines of cocaine--none for me, thanks--while reading a never-ending comic strip running along the ocean floor. I have no idea what that dream meant, but I think it must stem partially from my mother's never letting me eat sugar cereal...
...control events of nature have been visiting regularly for a few years now, of course. Think - to pick an example almost at random - of the summer of 1993, when rain poured down biblically for weeks and the Mississippi overflowed to become a vast, shallow brown ocean and submerged the Midwest's farms like an agricultural Atlantis. The entire country steamed like Bangkok; power systems died trying to satisfy the air conditioners' demands; old people keeled over in the doomy heat...