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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1996, maintenance crews were making nonstop modifications to the plane's engine, fuel system and brakes. "We've got this airplane practically rebuilt, but [the problems] just don't seem to stop," Senior Master Sergeant Michael Rutland complained to Air Force investigators looking into the second crash. "We wonder what else is wrong with it that we don't know about." More than half the instructor pilots, busy trying to teach others to fly, had "generalized anger" about the T-3, an Air Force psychologist reported. And the cadets were uneasy too. "With two accidents in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Trainer | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Wake Forest All-American Tim Duncan was weak with the flu and guard Tony Rutland hobbled with a knee injury, but the Demon Deacons (25-5) still rallied from 10 down in the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texas Tech Sends North Carolina Home | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...state and local officials, too, criticize Washington rulemakers. Enforcers of the Safe Drinking Water Act, for example, require towns like Rutland, Vermont (pop. 18,000), to test for 121 chemicals in the water. Complains Mayor Jeffrey Wennberg: "More than 80% of those chemicals would never be found in our water because there is no farming or industry here. It's ludicrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESSIONAL CHAIN-SAW MASSACRE | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

Neuroscientists Antonio and Hanna Damasio and three collaborators analyzed the battered 170-year-old skull of one Phineas Gage, whose cranium had been preserved as an object of medical fascination. Gage was a reliable fellow, well regarded by his workmates on the Rutland and Burlington Railroad. But on Sept. 13, 1848, while using explosives to prepare Vermont's craggy terrain for track, he suffered a hideous accident. Briefly distracted, the 25-year-old foreman triggered a premature explosion that launched a pointed iron rod, thick as a broomstick, right through his skull. The rod rocketed through his face, excising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine for the Soul | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

Also in the Nieman program next year: Michael E. Ruane, 42, reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer; Mark Seibel, 37, foreign editor of The Miami Herald; Tom Witosky, 39, sports projects reporter for The Des Moines Register; and Nancy Wright, 37, political reporter for the Rutland, Vt., Herald and The Times Argus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Class of Neimans Selected By University | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

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