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Investigators also have a list of questions about possible mechanical malfunctions. The plane's wing panels, or spoilers, were supposed to open and slow it down during landing, but the flight-data recorder indicates they never opened. The co-pilot has said he thinks the pilot properly activated them. The plane's thrust reversers, which also help slow a landing plane, turned on and off instead of remaining on throughout the landing. But the flight data show that the pilot, who operates them manually, may have turned them on and off intentionally to give him better control over the plane...
...husband in New York City. She said PRINCE had a virus infection, which caused his third febrile seizure this year, a condition not uncommon among young children. At last report Prince was resting in a New York City hotel and, according to his doctor's statement, "showing slow and significant improvement...
...Pleasanton, pick up the key and get into the Honda to drive to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where both are scientists. In the past they drove the entire way from home to their jobs--60 miles round-trip--because the bus service connecting BART to the lab was slow and unreliable. Now they take BART to Pleasanton and, for $60 a month, zip from the station to the lab in a CarLink Honda. They finish office tasks on the train and keep more sensible hours in order to get the Honda back to the BART station in time...
That is now a period piece, but I think it is important to keep it on the record. Graham, a slow but sure learner, moved with the spirit of the age, and in the 1980s he became a preacher of world peace, urging reconciliation with Russia and China, where his wife Ruth, the daughter of missionaries, was born. Angry Fundamentalists turned against him, a move that became an anti-Graham passion when he rejected the program of the Christian right: "I don't think Jesus or the Apostles took sides in the political arenas of their day." The break between...
...Harvard official says the University soonbecame impatient with the slow pace of talks.Rudenstine insisted Harvard would take a hands-offrole-allowing Radcliffe to finish a "strategicplanning process" on its own before moving on tomore in-depth, joint talks...