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...demise. Aviation experts -- not to mention airline passengers -- hate a mystery. Since 1967, the board has succeeded in finding a probable cause for all but three air disasters. On average, such investigations take a year. The rush in this instance owes much to the magnitude of the human toll, the largest in the U.S. since 1987, when a Northwest Airlines crash claimed 156 lives. The tragedy also involved a Boeing 737, the most common of all passenger jetliners. Moreover, there is an eerie resemblance between the September catastrophe and the March 1991 crash of United Airlines Flight 585 near Colorado...
...Leibovitz's status as "seer." Israeli newspapers reported the daily incidents from the territories: pitiable, rock-throwing Arab youth and ruthlessly professional Israeli soldiers, together engaged in a macabre dance of death. Editorialists began to wonder how long the undeclared war could go on without taking a severe moral toll on the occupiers...
...able to escape to Harvard and distance herself from the chaotic hold of her mother's constant need for attention and care. As a busy student, Gray Sexton found herself ignoring her mother's phone calls and obvious cries for help. Chronic depression, loneliness and alcoholism were taking their toll on her mother, but Gray Sexton, exhausted from care-giving, was compelled to remain distant. She writes, "in the last months of my mother's life I chose to ignore her cry of loneliness. I refused to make her last days less painful...
After two weeks, the deadly pneumonic plague has spread from the port city of Surat to New Delhi and five other states, including West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. But officials claimed they had the epidemic under control. At week's end the death toll topped...
Benke added that the course at Brown is "very tough, with a lot of hills--it takes its toll on your legs." She said that the team has been "looking good in practice--we've all been talking it up, and we're aware of what we have...