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Airlines routinely lose baggage, and one airplane in flight last year even lost some of its skin. In the sky near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last week, a Boeing 737 lost something just as important: one of its two engines. Moments after takeoff, the jet's right engine somehow tore free from the wing at about 1,000 ft. and plummeted to a field below. The plane landed safely back at O'Hare, and all 32 people aboard Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger...
...years ago, there weren't that many people we could borrow money from," notes Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs, a leading international economist. "We were reluctant to run deficits out of fear of creating sky-high inflation. Now there is a global bank-teller window that is open 24 hours a day, and we've been one of the most frequent customers." Sachs warns, however, that the bender cannot last. "We're faking it," he says. "Our living standard isn't being maintained by higher productivity or wages. It's maintained by foreign capital...
Supernovae, in which Kirshner has specialized since his graduate school years at the California Institute of Technology, are stars which have ended their lives as energy producing bodies with a tremendous explosion. If the phenomenon occurs close enough to the Earth, it is observable in the sky as a bright star, Kirshner says...
NATION: U. S. fighter jets shoot two Libyan MiGs out of the sky...
...students, the gains can be rich. Some of Sadler's initial findings reveal that STAR students do about 30% better than ordinary students in absorbing concepts and learn about twice as much math as their regular counterparts. "I used to look up at the night sky and say, 'Yeah, so what?' " recalls Aphrodite Kapetanakos, a Watertown junior. "Now I show my friends a constellation and say, 'Check it out!' All they know is the Big Dipper...