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This week's poll is the tenth done for TIME this year by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, which conducts polling and market research for a variety of corporations, business associations and publications. Since January we have shared our polls with Cable News Network, which broadcasts the results on its 24-hour news shows. Observes Zintl: "If you can get a measure of public sentiment, and some of the reasons behind it, that can be very valuable to the reader. It can add evidence to what we're finding out anecdotally...
...near miracle of survival in the midst of a horrible tragedy. When a stricken United Airlines DC-10 failed by seconds to achieve a level emergency landing and plowed into the earth only yards short of a runway at Sioux Gateway Airport, 110 passengers and crew members died, the tenth highest airplane toll in U.S. history. But, astonishingly, 186 lived through the crash and its fiery aftermath. Some even walked away. Never before had selecting a seat been such a fateful decision. Almost every passenger in the plane's 32-seat first-class compartment was killed. Virtually...
Fate and circumstance combine to limit the death toll in what is nevertheless the tenth worst air crash in U.S. history. -- On the diplomatic front: a senior U.S. foreign service officer is suspected of espionage, and George Bush is accused of giving embassy jobs to wealthy but unqualified supporters. -- The Stealth bomber takes to the skies -- but Congress may shoot it down...
...account of the Challenger investigation, Nobel Laureate Richard P. Feynman described a curious battle that occurred as the presidential commission was compiling its final report. The commission agreed on nine recommendations to the president, but the chair, William P. Rogers, decided to add a tenth, praising NASA and urging continued government support. His motive? To add balance to the report's generally critical findings...
...extensive network of environmentalists, like those who monitor policies in the U.S. and Western Europe. The government's foreign aid programs, which can have a major effect on the global environment, are administered by roughly the same number of people who ran them when they were giving out one-tenth as much money...