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...Singapore Airlines Flight 006 made the sharp turn onto the runway at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in the middle of a punishing storm on Oct. 31, John Diaz settled comfortably into his first-class seat in the Boeing 747, ready for takeoff. But Flight 006 had turned onto the wrong runway, and suddenly Diaz and the 178 other people on board slammed to earth as the 747 erupted into a giant, terrifying fireball, breaking into three large jagged pieces. Flight 006 ended its last journey 8,000 ft. from where it began, a burning, cracked hulk...
...Number of articles in major newspapers last week on the Singapore Airlines runway crash in Taiwan that killed...
Nearly upstaging the parade of reed-thin runway models at New York City's fashion week were 29 fully curved Playboy Bunnies recruited by designer BETSEY JOHNSON to flaunt her spring line of bikinis and bustiers. The whimsical designer matched the models' outfits to the months they so proudly represented in the magazine, dressing Miss June as a bride in a white swimsuit and cutaway train and giving Miss April a transparent mini-raincoat. The Bunnies were instructed to be themselves on the catwalk, leading some to pinch each other, while others flashed the audience. Ava Fabian, a former Miss...
Here is a soothing bit of perspective to consider the next time you are belted in on the runway and the captain announces, "We are 14th in line for takeoff." Before 1869, it could have taken the better part of a month for a stagecoach to make its way across the plains and over the mountains of North America. After 1869, the time was cut to about one smoky, jolting week on the newly completed link known as the transcontinental railroad...
...that "we've still got trillions of dollars left in the surplus." Aides explained away the slips by saying he was tired. But it was only August, and Bush had been away from home for all of one day. The next morning, as his campaign jet idled on the runway in Des Moines, the Governor strolled back to the press corps and allowed that "I've got to do a better job." Eager for a close race, the media seized on the admission as a sign of disarray. With Gore on the rise, old questions about Bush--Is he smart...