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...worst military air disaster ever. Headed home for the holidays to Fort Campbell, Ky., after six months of multinational peacekeeping duties in the hot winds of the Sinai Peninsula, the troopers died in the bleak brush and deep chill of Newfoundland when their chartered DC-8 jet failed to sustain its takeoff from Gander International Airport. The blue- and-white plane rose less than 1,000 ft., then smashed, tail first, into a small hill, disintegrating in flames about a half-mile from the end of the runway...
...most important thing an aspiring student novelist can do is sustain a piece of fiction of that length, "Leland says...
Another important source of the increased altruism is the media attention devoted to the famine throughout Africa. "Famine is always there but you can't sustain the coverage. But I think the Ethipia crises gave a push for us," says Troy A. Davis '87, treasurer of Cyclists Fighting Hunger...
While there have been freshman literary magazines in the past, they have usually only lasted for one year, said Gadol. The Advocate's freshman supplement "will sustain itself from year to year since it is being overseen by our junior staff," he said...
...still unclear how many residents of Mameyes caught in the slide's path survived the fall, but those who did escaped soon after the disaster struck. Unlike the havoc wrought by last month's earthquake in Mexico, the mud slide left no lifesaving pockets of air to sustain the trapped...