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...caffeinated punk who, in any group, would be voted most likely to screw up the mission. He brings some of that chip-on-shoulder orneriness to Moon - at times you wonder how Sam aced the screening process and got the job - and to the second Sam, a Top Gun-type who fulminates while the first one mewls. But there's a tenderness, too, in Rockwell's depiction, from the inside, of a man out of his shallows, one little guy against the whole galactic system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon: A Superior Space Oddity | 6/14/2009 | See Source »

...York City-Geneva Swissair flight that mysteriously crashed into the Atlantic in 1998 ultimately revealed a swiftly spreading electrical fire as the cause. Hayes also notes that after the Pan Am 747 explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, the discovery of metal fragments and an examination of the type of damage to one section of the plane pointed experts to a small bomb as the source of the calamity. Forensics has also cleared up questions in otherwise obvious accidents, such as the fuel-tank explosion of an Air France Concorde in 2000 that killed 113 people. During that thorough inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Air France Crash Be Solved With No Black Box? | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

...cases where there were available data on the type of activity that led to injury, researchers found the most common way adults hurt themselves - 50% of incidents - was while moving the computer or one of its components, defined by the researchers as anything from a mouse or keyboard to a scanner or piece of computer furniture. Children, on the other hand, got hurt most often by climbing on or playing near computer equipment. Injuries among small children accounted for a disproportionate number of all accidents, which most concerned the study's authors. "Children under age 5 had the highest overall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Computer Hazard: Dropping One on Your Foot | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...private company based in China's southwestern Sichuan province, hope to revive Hummer? The company has offered few details. It manufactures heavy machinery, road and bridge construction equipment, and special-use vehicles like dump trucks and cement mixers. With fuel prices remaining high, Tengzhong may restrict Hummer to some type of specialized application, rather than position the vehicle as a toy for wealthy consumers, says John Bonnell, director of Asia Pacific forecasting for J.D. Power and Associates. "I think the future is something outside a normal passenger vehicle for the Hummer," says Bonnell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will China Build a Fuel-Efficient Hummer? | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

...could always be found with a smile on his face, friends said. The Adams House resident died suddenly late last October, going into cardiac arrest near Weld Boathouse after completing the men’s race of the semiannual River Run. “This is the worst type of tragedy,” said Adams House Master Sean G. Palfrey ’67. “It was unexpected, unexplained, sudden, and absolute. Despite having every possible resource available to help him, and despite the presence of two anesthesiologists who started resuscitation efforts immediately, there was nothing that...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peter Cai '10 | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

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