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...finalized a $3.5 billion order with Boeing to upgrade its fleet. "That 747 had logged 110,000 flying hours," Lee Kreindler, who represents some of the families in civil suits against Boeing, told TIME Online. "It was designed for 60,000 hours. A new airplane wouldn't have been torn apart (by a falling beam)." According to the draft report, that's exactly what happened: A hatch cover blew off one of the six-foot beams that divide the plane's cavernous center fuel tank into smaller compartments, sending another beam crashing forward and forcing a third beam...
...regard that extra year: as a peace dividend. A generation ago, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the idea of a year off from college was dangerously ridiculous. Leaving school meant a one-way ticket to Saigon. Two generations ago it was Korea. Three generations ago, war-torn Europe or the inferno of the Pacific. My generation has had the blessing of growing up in peaceful times, and it has made all the difference. That fifth year of college has given us, in the best sense of the cliche, a chance to find ourselves...
That policy kept America engaged with its allies and paid off handsomely. Not only is there no prospect of a war in Europe, but the ancient enemies--France and Germany at the center--have integrated their economies, torn down internal trade barriers, and face the world increasingly as a single unit. Their prosperity is enormous: Europe's gross domestic product last year, $8.6 trillion, overshadows America's $7.6 trillion...
Penn also had history on its side: Three consecutive Ivy League championships from 1992-95. In that period, the Quakers had torn up the league at a 42-0 clip. Harvard had not defeated the Quakers since Feb. 1, 1991, when the Crimson prevailed...
...four days later, Harvard suffered a heartbreaking 12-6 loss to a good UMass team on April 16. Not only did the Crimson possibly ruin its final hope of making the tournament (there still remained a sliver of a chance), but it lost its leading scorer Ferrucci to a torn anterior cruciate ligament for the rest of the season...