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...this thriller was the talk of TV. Deservedly so: its pulse-pounding premise (a counterterrorist agent--Kiefer Sutherland, below--has 24 hours to stop an assassination), gimmick (each episode is one hour in real time) and look (a split screen is used to relate concurrent story lines) made its pilot the most exciting of the year. Some later episodes had a draggy, shaggy-dog quality, but at its best, 24 had us counting the seconds...
...think blame might lie with how the plane was built. New evidence, however, suggests a problem may also have been in how it was flown. According to a blunt 1997 letter obtained by TIME, safety officers from Boeing and Airbus, the plane's builders, had warned American that its pilot training relied too much on the rudder to recover in turbulent situations, which can "lead to structural loads that exceed the design strength of the [tail...
John Hotard, a spokesman for American, says the carrier reworked its pilot-training program in 1999 to de-emphasize use of the rudder and that both pilots on Flight 587 would have received the updated training. Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate all possible causes of the crash. The NTSB has asked NASA to help it analyze the tail fin, which was made of composite materials, in its effort to determine whether some structural flaw in the plane was responsible for the still mystifying crash...
...case in England, where tenants had discovered that they could sell their lands to the Church and then rent them back tax-free—a practice banned in the 1217 reissue of Magna Carta.) Also, the University still plans to establish a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with the city to compensate it for some of the loss. But as long as Harvard doesn’t pay the full rate on its property, the resulting shortfall could leave Watertown in the lurch...
...considering instead is a bill that would reimburse municipalities for the losses that large tax-exempt institutions create. That way, the reward for charitable work is preserved without placing a truly unequal burden on small towns. Such a system would also reduce the constant bickering over expansion and PILOT agreements that plagues Harvard’s relationships with its neighbors...