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Even if this particular tragedy can be characterized as human error, however, the crash has laid bare ValuJet's uneven safety record. Since its start-up in October 1993, the airline has had more than 284 "service difficulties," according to the FAA, such as a plane rolling off the runway...
The collision between warm and cold air masses sets up conditions that favor the growth of big thunderstorms. A tornado, however, requires something else as well: the presence of what meteorologists call wind shear. This occurs when winds in the so-called boundary layer--the part of the atmosphere closest...
The musical score itself, courtesy of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, could be at fault. During the prologue, the orchestra remains just a little bit off beat, but enough to make one sit up and take notice. Fortunately conductor Jonathan McPhee soon shepherds his fellow musicians into a warm, rolling succession of...
For many Americans the phrase great soap opera--like a great Douglas Sirk movie--will always remain an oxymoron. Pity the unenlightened: melodramas, like cheap beers, are not created equally--there are Rolling Rocks in the sea of Schmidt's Lights. For many of its 26 years on air, All...
I also wanted to avoid overinterpreting the decision of the Washington Post and ABC to dissect the political preference of UFO spotters in the first place. I assume that Perot has claimed that it was simply to embarrass him, a subtler version of polling people on the question "Which candidate...