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...such terrible conditions, the plane was kept aloft by engine thrust only," said Mitsuo Nakano, JAL's deputy chief of 747 pilots. "That is an incredible performance." A U.S. expert, Captain Homer Mouden of the Flight Safety Foundation in Arlington, Va., agreed. "The crew exhibited great courage and skill in trying to keep it sea flying," he said. But the odds loose," a United Air Lines pilot said. But why did so much of the tail break away in the air? That mystery was being probed by investigators from the Japanese Ministry of Transport as well as an advisory team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Last Minutes of JAL 123 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...member U.S. team and three accompanying American reporters, the first group of U.S. citizens and journalists to visit China in nearly a quarter of a century ... Probably never before in history has a sport been used so effectively as a tool of international diplomacy. With its premium on delicate skill and its onomatopoeic name implying an interplay of initiative and response, Ping Pong was an apt metaphor for the relations between Washington and Peking. "I was quite a Ping Pong player in my days at law school," President Nixon told his aides last week. "I might say I was fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 34 Years Ago in TIME | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

Your résumé lists fire eating as a skill. Has that helped you in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Pierce Brosnan | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

Having managed both assets and managers, Meyer calls the latter more of a “different skill set†than a challenge...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Alexander H. Greeley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Finding the Path to Growth | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...They have great skill and great potential, and in the next three years we’re probably going to see Harvard at the top of the Ivy League rather than at the bottom,†co-captain Kelly Noon said...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Women's Lacrosse | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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