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...death last week could also be attributed to a modern kind of hubris. For Jessica was urged on by overzealous parents, by a media drawn to a natural human-interest story and by a willfully blind Federal Aviation Administration, which permitted a 4-ft. 2-in., 55-lb. seven-year-old whose feet did not reach the rudder pedals to fly an airplane across the country in a misbegotten publicity stunt--as long as a licensed pilot was beside her. At week's end a federal investigator suggested that Jessica's Cessna was overloaded for the thin Rocky Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jessica Dubroff: FLY TILL I DIE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

Cheyenne is a high-altitude airport, 6,156 ft. above sea level. The thinner air requires longer takeoff runs, and the pilot must factor this into the flight plan. "You may ask whether a seven-year-old did the figuring, and I don't know," says Charles Porter of Sky Harbor Air Service in Cheyenne. "A lot of pilots whose time is limited to sea level have forgotten and ended up in the golf course." The weather was ugly. A thunderstorm was moving in from the northwest, winds were 25 to 30 m.p.h. Thunderstorms are a potent cocktail for pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jessica Dubroff: FLY TILL I DIE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...White Balloon" is the story of a seven-year-old child who, on the eve of the Persian New Year, sees a beautiful goldfish in a pet shop window. Fish are an elemental part of the Persian New Year celebration, which occurs on the first day of spring and lasts for thirteen days. The goldfish in the pet shop is expensive for the family's rather modest income. But with the help of her brother, the little girl, Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani), convinces her mother to buy the fish for their New Year ceremony...

Author: By Amir Zarrinpar, | Title: Sample, Sweet 'Balloon' | 3/21/1996 | See Source »

Russell tells of how seven-year-old Molly Struzziery, one of Russell's nine grandchildren, proudly informed a classmate last week that her grandmother was the mayor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'It's My Turn' | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...Academy screening committee is in for a treat, for the film is fresh and beguiling. Seven-year-old Razieh (Aida Mohammakhani) is determined to buy a pretty white "dancing" goldfish she saw in a nearby shop. Reluctantly, her mother gives Razieh a 500-toman note, but the little girl loses the money. It has fallen into a sewer grate, tantalizingly out of reach. In dramatizing her efforts to get the money back, the film shows that no one can want anything as much as a child does. No one can be so desperate, endearing, selfish. Razieh is a maven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BALLOON STORY | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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