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Around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, skydiver Alfred Peters, 51, jumped from a Cessna aircraft and accelerated to about 120 miles per hour when he struck the rear of Klein's single-engine Piper Cherokee PA28. Peters, who had not yet opened his parachute, apparently hit the plane with his ankle, sending it into a fatal tailspin...
...skydiver, who had logged 37 previous jumps, told authorities he leaped from the single-engine Cessna at about 8,000 feet above the airport. Within moments, he saw the Piper heading straight at him before he struck its tail section, according to Jeff Guzzetti, and inspector for the National Transportation Safety Board...
...beast is, depending on what part of it touches them. Hollywood executives tend to see the emerging market as a way to distribute movies and TV shows. Computer types see it as a way to get their machines into every home. Cable TV companies see it as a Pied Piper that will lure a generation of young viewers onto the data superhighway -- and get their parents to pay for pricey service connections and set-top cable boxes that might otherwise seem intimidating...
...children have always bloodily expired, Powers writes in his mood of apocalyptic gloom. His hero, tormented by daymares and night sweats, broods by the dozens of pages over the medieval horror of the Children's Crusade, relishes at chapter-length the cold irony of the Pied Piper legend, written out with speaking parts for everyone except the rats. Writhing as he pares away wrecked body parts, Kraft imagines, for the duration of a novella, cynical child abuse during the evacuation of London's children at the time of the blitz (rural lechers taking the pretty preteens into their homes, ignoring...
...Operation Wandering Soul (aside from a surprisingly lame title) is that amid all its commotion, not much happens. Kraft and Espera try to have a romance, but they are too benumbed to make it work. Some of the hospital's sick children, not very convincingly, take a Pied Piper skit on tour. The author tells us that his hero is modeled after his own older brother, a surgeon, and sure enough, "Kraft" can be translated from German as power. The clue fits; despite mighty imaginings, the admiring younger brother has been too deferential to invent a story...