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...crash: human error. As the plane's movable wings were swung forward for a low-altitude test, Benefield apparently forgot to switch on a mechanism that shifts fuel among various tanks. The B-lA's center of gravity thus stayed toward the tail, causing the bomber to rear up at a 70° angle, stall and tumble earthward...
...Rice squad turned in a 38, and Harvard brought up the rear with...
...surrogate mothers, an omission that Richard Fitzpatrick, a Democrat in the state legislature, has been trying to correct for three years. His latest attempt is a comprehensive proposal requiring that all births involving third parties be covered by contracts, and that the "societal parents" (i.e., those who plan to rear the baby) have "all parental rights and responsibilities for a child, regardless of the condition of the child, conceived through a fertility technique." At the same time, another Michigan legislator has drafted a rival law making all surrogate parenting a crime punishable by up to 90 days in prison...
American automobile production is only as old as the century: in that brief span the car has probably changed our lives as much as any invention in all the previous epochs. It was time that some courageous museum looked in the rear-view mirror and mounted a show to celebrate and lament those alterations. The exhibit is called "Automobile and Culture," and it is housed in the new Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA...
...seemed a bit crazy. An overflow crowd of 8,000 gaped at competitors wearing aerodynamic early-Darth Vader helmets and rubberized skinsuits that were banned in international cycling until 1981. The special U.S. bikes, developed at a cost of $1 million, feature relatively small front wheels and spokeless, solid rear ones made of Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests, which reduces air turbulence. The result: a 1-to 3-sec. saving per km. Said Chester Kyle, a professor of mechanical engineering who headed the bike-design team: "Cycling is the most technically sophisticated sport at the Games...