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...stage I was standing by the door chucking out everything movable - oil canisters, food, anything - to halt the descent," Branson said. "I thought, "What am I doing up here?" The acknowledged hero of the safe landing was engineer Alex Ritchie, himself a last-minute replacement for a sick crewman, who climbed outside the capsule to jettison a one-ton fuel tank, slowing the rapid fall. "We owe a debt of gratitude to Alex. He saved our lives," said Branson. At the launch Tuesday a North African military air base near Marrakech, Morocco, Branson had expressed higher hopes. "We are about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unscheduled Landing | 1/8/1997 | See Source »

...would disagree that working all night as a regular habit is unhealthy, particularly at a school where personal and academic pressures for certain students are already over-whelming. Anyone who has visited other colleges knows that Harvard is a somewhat sick place: People here work all the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sleepless In Cabot | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

...SICK MAN OF THE YEAR (EUROPE):Boris Yeltsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 30, 1996 | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...SICK MAN OF THE YEAR (AFRICA): Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 30, 1996 | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...SICK MAN OF THE DECADE (ASIA): Deng Xiaoping of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 30, 1996 | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

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