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Though investigators do not know for certain what caused either of these crashes, they suspect that the steel pins that attach the engines to the wing may have failed. Even before the China Airlines accident, Boeing was concerned about wear and tear on the so-called fuse pins, 4-in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are 747s Safe to Fly? | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

Economic strangulation will soon lead to social unrest, which in turn could ignite an ethnic conflagration worse than the one in Bosnia. Because Macedonia has large Muslim minorities, civil war within that republic is more likely than anywhere else to escalate into a religious and regional war that could end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Greece's Defense Seems Just Silly | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

Fortunately, there are other options we can try for now. Recruiting more minority and low-income students and improving race relations should go a long way toward reversing this year's problem. If it doesn't, we may have to consider special aid packages for minority and low-income students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bidding War? | 9/29/1992 | See Source »

So does network TV reflect a liberal sensibility? Yes, a certain political correctness does prevail around the dial. The concerns of feminists, environmental activists and oppressed minorities are given sympathetic treatment; big corporations are usually portrayed as villains; government bureaucrats are typically inept or uncaring. But this is probably due...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sitcom Politics | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

The most drama is likely to come in the backstroke, pitting towering Wagstaff (5 ft. 11 in., with men's size 11 1/2 feet) against compact Krisztina Egerszegi (5 ft. 4 in.) of Hungary. Wagstaff fades at 200 m but is a front runner at 100 m, and the Barcelona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming A Bigger Splash | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

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