Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of what the investigators seek remains beneath the ocean, in waterlogged seats, shreds of clothing, mangled bags and carpet scraps. Every bomb scatters tiny bits of undetonated explosive, and some of those particles penetrate porous material and lodge there, protected from the elements. Says a bomb specialist: "Nylon, porous materials, seat cushions--a lot of stuff can get in there and stick. You wash down the debris with a solvent and run it through the machines." Crash clues, in the end, could come in very small packages. Says an aviation expert: "All the significant evidence could...
...microscopes." Members of the unit will be studying the plane's metal surfaces for tiny pitting that could have been caused by an explosion that would have melted tiny pieces of metal and sent them, and other tiny bits of debris, shooting around like buckshot. Says a bomb specialist: "It's a high-speed phenomenon, faster than the speed of a plane crashing...
...dead air time during the first hour or two, but it became clear that his support systems were inadequate. He was reduced to reading wire copy handed to him by staff members, making idle chitchat about Boeing 747 seat configurations and looking in vain for help from NBC aviation specialist Robert Hager, who was in Atlanta with little...
...favorite among students with a growing international reputation among scholars, the European history specialist was among Harvard's most prized up-and-coming professors...
Hernandez, an environmental-protection specialist for the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, describes his daughter as a gentle soul. One afternoon they went to look at tidal pools together. The tide had come in, stranding hundreds of sea cucumbers. Amber spent the afternoon rescuing the helpless things. "She was a happy girl," he says. "I don't know what happened." He adds, "My message is to love your kids as much as you can, because you don't know what's going to happen...