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...Hitler, a mortal threat, to move the Allied democracies from complacent enclaves to the global powerhouses that by century's end would embrace most of the world's people? Here is a place to draw the line. "It may be true that we've got great medical breakthroughs, radar, sonar because of war," says theologian Marty, "but I don't like to make a theology out of that; it's an accidental product." Rosenbaum agrees that to focus on the benefits is to risk trivializing the tragedy itself. "There are a lot of people who want...
Navy vessels equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and seasoned divers struggled to answer what were, initially, unanswerable questions. The Deep Drone, an underwater robot outfitted with sonar and cameras, located the crucial black boxes--the flight-data recorder and cockpit-voice recorders--within days. The flight-data recorder from the 767-300 is a new design that stores 55 measurements of the plane's movements and control inputs--as much as five times more than previous models--that should help investigators piece together what went wrong...
...Curt Newport found it on the first try. "I remember saying, 'Oh my God, I can't believe it. That's it. We found it. This is it!"' Newport said afterward. The sonar on the salvage expert's ship had spotted 88 potential targets in the 24-square-mile area Newport had isolated after 14 years of analyzing NASA charts and photographs. The first object Newport checked out looked like airplane wreckage -- until he made out the words "United States" on the video monitor. Mission accomplished. But the mystery of why the hatch blew in the first place will likely...
...became one very shortly thereafter. After halogen lamps were banned in all Yard dormitories in September of 1997 (though still permitted in upperclass Houses), students found themselves faced with a simple choice. They could sit in the dark, eat large quantities of carrots or develop previously nonhuman powers of sonar detection and echolocation to get around their abysmally lit rooms...
Poirier, on one of his dives, picked up a signal on sonar just before having to surface. The next diver, Kent Gulliford, swept away some debris and found the cockpit voice recorder. The team was ecstatic, but soon learned that the black box, like the first one found, had not recorded the last six minutes of flight...