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...Olympian dream comes in the bargain. "I want to ski the down hill course where Bill Johnson won the gold medal," states Philadelphian John O'Neil. Though he cannot understand the words, Rizo Uzicanin recognizes the glint in the American's eye and beams at him from his stall in the old Turkish market. Such tourist fantasies are warmer to Uzicanin than the handcrafted woolens hanging from his shop front. "I've been on this corner 64 years," he says, "since I was a boy of seven with my father. We have never seen the prosperity that we have here...
William Peacock had just finished a breakfast of Chinese beef and noodles when he felt the plane "shudder, like we were going into a mild stall." His first instinct was to return to his seat just ten feet away, but even that proved a chore. "The aircraft had started to turn a very hard left, and there was this incredible horizontal pressure pushing my entire body to the right." China Airlines Flight 006 from Taipei to Los Angeles, with 243 passengers and 25 crew members aboard, was going down. "Dishes crashed against the walls and floor," Peacock recounted. "The baggage...
...while the plane cruised at 41,000 ft. This mechanism keeps aircraft on a safe course at high altitudes, where the human eye cannot judge the angle of flight. But while a plane is operating under the system, even small variations in speed or flight angle can cause a stall or nose dive. A key question is whether Ming overrode the system while making his descent. Federal investigators will continue inspecting the aircraft and interviewing passengers and crew members for several weeks...
When Jay Bubniak smacked an 18-ft, jumper with 7:22 remaining, Princeton was on too (35-34) for good and in control with a finely turned stall...
Unlike registrations past, there will be no general package containing information about different student organizations, said Shela Stall a Registrar's office clerk, because student groups showed little interest