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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astonishingly, 186 lived through the crash and its fiery aftermath. Some even walked away. Never before had selecting a seat been such a fateful decision. Almost every passenger in the plane's 32-seat first-class compartment was killed. Virtually all the 117 travelers in an economy-class section behind them survived...
...central daylight time), as the DC-10 cruised at 33,000 ft. above the tiny town of Alta, Iowa (pop. 1,720), it was jolted. Passengers heard an explosion at the plane's rear, then felt the huge craft shake and pitch downward. In Row 11 of the economy section in front of the wings, Lori Michaelson was traveling with her husband and three children. "I could see the stewardesses looked kind of panicky," she recalled later. That was understandable. One of them had been knocked to the floor...
...always want their stories to be the best -- and the first. This week's issue features what we think are two notable examples of excellence and exclusivity. Correspondents Richard Behar and Scott Brown take a penetrating second look at the Exxon Valdez disaster. And in a special five-page section, Washington correspondent David Aikman talks with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the first major interview the Soviet writer has given to any U.S. news organization since...
...translate technical material. A powerful computer called SHALT, designed by IBM Japan, is being used extensively for in-house translations. In 1988 SHALT converted four IBM manuals from English into Japanese. This year the target is 20 to 30. Predicts Kiyotaka Yasui, manager of the language and image- technology section at IBM Japan's Tokyo research laboratory: "In five years the internal-publication department of IBM Japan will be fulfilling 100% of its translation requirements via machines...
...themselves in the capital. Craig Spence, a would-be power broker with a taste for Edwardian suits, took that advice to heart when he arrived in Washington in the late 1970s and hurled himself into high-intensity party-giving at his elegant town house in the fashionable Kalorama section of town...