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Some relatives tired of the wait and, defying police orders, scrambled over the rocky terrain. Yoshiaki and Kuniko Miyajima reached the remnants of what seemed to be seat 12-K; it had been as signed to their son Takeshi, 9, who had been flying to visit an uncle. The couple prayed over the shattered seat. Several giant sumo wrestlers reached the wreck age, in which the wife and two children of their "stablemaster," or trainer, had died. Doctors who helped retrieve the bodies, many of which were horribly broken, also found some whose injuries might not have been fatal...
...toupee, who hitches a ride with a Century 21 realtor and his blissed-out brother, is in the grand American tradition. "'I am by training an engineer,' Webster began. 'My work has exposed me to all but one of the continents, to desert and alp and forest, to every terrain and season of the earth...
Part of the adventure for tourists who visit the ancient Mayan city of Tikal is in getting there. The site's famous ruins are buried deep in the Guatemalan jungle, and the 40-min. flight from Guatemala City affords sightseers spectacular views of the lush terrain. But last Saturday morning that journey ended in tragedy as a twin-engine Caravelle operated by the private carrier Aerovias crashed on its way to the airport at Santa Elena, 37 miles south of Tikal. Early reports put the number killed at 90, including six Americans. Some of the passengers had apparently traveled...
...China's economic miracle has come on familiar terrain: low wages and a charge up the manufacturing food chain, resulting in surging exports and rising incomes. But to meet the growing expectations of the Chinese people, the government will need to move from an economy that makes goods more cheaply for the rest of the world to one that makes goods the world hasn't even thought...
...says, "we didn't understand that if somebody around here starts shooting, they aren't necessarily shooting at you. These people all have enemies." After studying reports of the incident, the lieutenant has concluded that in the chaos of battle, at night, and in rough, unfamiliar terrain, the SAS squadron commander wrongly assumed that his men were under attack by al-Qaeda, and believed the only way to save them was to call in an air strike...