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...Say this for New York in the mid-'70s: from its desperate blight emerged some pretty sharp movies. Back then, children, Hollywood was actually interested in reflecting contemporary society, and this poster child for urban dystopia provided the perfect setting. A raft of films - Serpico, Death Wish, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver - navigated that stinky Styx with the expertise of a champion white-water rafter. A lesser but still pertinent entry was The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which starred Robert Shaw as the criminal mastermind and Walter Matthau as the transit detective trying to talk...
...that provide basic services ranging from real estate management to facilities and maintenance operations once the current vice president Sally H. Zeckhauser—whose tenure spaned four Harvard presidencies—retires at the end of June. When Zeckhauser announced her retirement earlier this year, administrators declined to say whether a replacement would be named or whether the position would be discontinued...
...figured, Beck would bomb worse than an Arab in a crowded marketplace. To make sure, I went to one of the 440 movie theaters charging $20 to see a simulcast of Beck's sold-out show from Kansas City, Mo. He opened by looking at the camera and saying, "I particularly want to say hi to the guy from TIME magazine in Burbank, likely all by himself." Which I was. In that there were only 45 people in the audience, and according to actuarial tables, I was likely to be the only one breathing by the end of the show...
...black box. But after 10 days of searching, the authorities combing what's believed to be Flight 447's crash site, some 700 miles (1,125 km) out to sea, have come up with only 41 bodies and relatively little of the plane's wreckage. And that, experts say, is not nearly enough...
...other air-safety experts warn that rough seas and worsening weather in the search area are already lowering the chances of finding more significant evidence. That, they say, increases the value of the 24 automated alerts the A330 emitted just before it vanished on June 1. Those warnings signaled electrical problems, reduced cabin pressure, considerable turbulence and, above all, conflicting information from the three Pitot tubes, devices that help pilots determine the plane's speed. Based on the alerts, one of the leading theories now is that malfunctioning sensors may have prevented the crew from correctly gauging the plane...