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...RAINCOATS Aired 4/28/94. The episode that ends with a takeoff on Schindler's List. Funny enough, but the cranky gang of four has already roasted a sacred cow this way. The show, though still far from formulaic, is losing the originality that first made us love...
...midst of Indonesia?s economic free fall last week, Bill Clinton, in New York City for a fundraiser, delayed Air Force One?s takeoff from a fog-shrouded Kennedy Airport to read the riot act to Indonesia?s strongman, Suharto...
...huge surprise of last week's testimony was the determination that when a mostly empty fuel tank gets as hot as TWA 800's was (about 145[degrees] at takeoff, because of the 400[degree] exhaust thrown off by air-conditioning units a foot away), the electrical charge necessary to detonate the resulting fumes is roughly a quarter of the smallest spark you feel when scuffing your foot on a rug. Said safety-board officer Peter Goelz: "We had no idea how little energy it took to cause an explosion." Hall remarked, "I for one don't see how every...
Sometimes, though, good things come in bad diskettes. When AOL crashed for 19 hours last August, Cassell wrote a takeoff of the classic Don McLean tune, which he titled Bye, Bye Amer'ca Online. ("So bye bye to Amer'ca Online/ Drove my modem to a domain and it's working just fine./ And good old geeks are cheering users offline/ Saying this'll be the day that they die.") Like most amusing online spore, it flew around the Net, causing a number of people to E-mail Cassell their thanks. One of them became Cassell's live-in girlfriend...
MIAMI: TIME aviation expert Jerry Hannifin says eyewitness accounts support the theory that engine failure caused the deadly crash of a Fine Air cargo jet yesterday. After hearing witness reports of the plane "wobbling" upon takeoff from Miami International, Hannifin believes the tragedy that killed the DC-8's four-man crew and injured four others on the ground was likely the result of a stalled compressor in one of the plane's engines...