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There are�1,104,766 lawyers in the�U.S., give or take, of whom nine at a time make it to the Supreme Court. Getting there is like being in exactly the right place in a field during a thunderstorm. "You can get yourself clumped together with the right crowd under a very small tree on a very big meadow," says a law professor who has followed friends through the process. "But then it's all about where the lightning strikes...
...June 23, in which all 329 occupants perished. In February, an Iberia Boeing 727 crashed into a mountain in Spain, killing all 148 aboard. Just two weeks ago, a Delta Air Lines wide-bodied Lockheed L-1011 failed to reach the runway while attempting a landing in a thunderstorm at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, dooming 134. The accidents seemed to have little in common; in all but one, however, widebodied airliners were involved. With the JAL crash, the worldwide civil aviation death toll for 1985 passed 1,400, making it the most lethal air travel year in history and raising, once...
...Lines Flight 191, a wide-bodied Lockheed L-1011 with 160 aboard, approached Dallas/Fort Worth Airport last Friday, the north Texas sky abruptly turned dark gray. Clouds welled up and burst into showers, and lightning bolts zigzagged menacingly. A meteorologist later estimated that a downdraft was rushing through the thunderstorm cell at 80 m.p.h. The huge plane descended, but suddenly plunged belly first to the ground a mile north of Runway 17 at the nation's largest airport (roughly the size of Manhattan). The L-1011 bounced off the turf and came down again a quarter-mile away, grazing...
...just when we thought it couldn’t get worse, we were awakened at 4:30 a.m. to find our tents shaking in the middle of a powerful thunderstorm, water pouring in through the leaks and soaking all of our belongings—and the male students trapped under their tent, which had collapsed in the wind and driving rain...
...about 6. She knew that would appeal to me because the border collie is the smartest species on the planet. Hugo could 1) play outfield in our backyard baseball games, 2) do flawless front-door sentry duty, and 3) play psychic weatherman, announcing with a wail every coming thunderstorm...