Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scale, level-6 thunderstorm. The plane and its human cargo--139 passengers and six crew members--were being tossed around by winds up to 80 m.p.h. And in the cockpit, the pilot and co-pilot were getting two separate wind-shear alerts. When the wheels of the twin-engine Super MD-80 finally touched down, it was on a runway made slick by heavy rain and marble-size hail...
Pirates tracks the rivalry between twin iconic weirdos: Jobs and Gates, temperamental opposites who shadow each other from their early days on the tech-conference fringe to the top of the NASDAQ charts. But the movie's focus is primarily on the turbulent Jobs, an adopted child who spends his life creating, and then rejecting, alternative identities, in true '60s seeker style. "One of the things that most fascinates me about him is his ability to blend Eastern philosophy with Western business techniques," says ER's Noah Wyle, who took the role after watching the PBS documentary Triumph...
...when, late one night, he rides back to the Kremlin from Lubyanka in his limousine, accompanied by "Boss Two," the near identical double who stood in for him at risky public appearances. Stalin has the limo stop alongside a drunk, rolls down the window and lets the drunk see...twin Stalins! "Drink a little less," Uncle Joe advises, and the limo roars off. This Stalin takes in the world with a savage candor. At a meeting with his hatchetman Lavrenty Beria, "I caught a whiff of that hideous cologne that Beria favored, the cologne of an unctuous headwaiter, the cologne...
...Crimson split a twin bill with Princeton, dropping the opener 1-0 before taking the nightcap, 10-1. Being shut out by a squad that it lit up for 10 runs just hours later would come back to haunt Harvard...
American Airlines Flight 1420 came in during a thunderstorm just before midnight Tuesday, and the rain-slicked runway just wasn't long enough. The twin-engine Super MD-80 outran 7,200 feet of asphalt, careened past an access road and whipped around a metal tower that peeled back the plane's thin shell on the left side, said one passenger, "like a sardine can." Then the spilled fuel caught fire, and the race to get out was on. Of 139 passengers and six crew members on board, 80 people were injured and taken to hospitals. Fifty-one others...