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...roof of a 19-year-old Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 peeled off in midflight last April, sounded again last week. Eastern Flight 251, bound from Rochester to Atlanta, was forced into a terrifying emergency dive, plunging 21,000 ft. in just one minute after a sudden rupture tore a 14-in. hole in the fuselage, depressurizing the cabin. Though the rapid descent caused some of the passengers excruciating ear pain, no one was seriously injured, and the 22-year-old Boeing 727 landed safely in Charleston...
...begin with, my bedroom is now a study. With great cunning, my parents waited until my junior year before they erased all vestiges of my memory. They packed away my weight set, tore down the basketball net and worst of all, gave my NFL bedsheets to charity. My pennants lay in a forlorn pile at the bottom of my closet. In their place, my father's diplomas hange with mocking pride. His desk rests serenely where I used to shoot Nerf hoops. My bed, remade and reeducated, is now his couch. It's not that I wanted a mausoleum...
...YORK--Columbia football fans tore down the goalposts, smeared themselves with mud and exulted in cold, damp weather Saturday after the Lions ended a five-year drought with a 16-13 victory over Princeton...
...protesters surged into Theater Square to chant "Sessiya! Sessiya!" (session) -- a call for the Armenian legislature to hold an emergency meeting to take up the annexation issue. Gone were the posters of Gorbachev that crowds carried earlier this year. "Things are different now," a protester said. Several demonstrators tore up their Communist Party cards...
...Dominican Republic, it was officially designated a hurricane when its winds exceeded the required 74 m.p.h. It sideswiped Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Sunday before reaching a raging fury over Jamaica on Monday. In Kingston the sky darkened and turned slate blue, as winds tore into the unprotected tropical island. Streets became rivers; trees were abruptly upended; and four out of five rooftops were ripped off. Said a U.S. airman trapped on the island: "There was no power, no water, no phones, no radio, nothing. The place was wrecked...