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...When Art called me it wasn't unusual to hear him want to vent and talk about what was going on in his life and politics in general,? DeFede says as he describes in detail what transpired the night Teele fatally shot himself in the Herald lobby - and the events leading up to DeFede being fired hours later. ?As we started to talk I became alarmed because I was hearing something in Art's voice that I hadn't heard before - frustration, but more than frustration, almost defeatism...
...cabin, Yumi Ochiai, 26, an offduty JAL flight attendant, saw and heard the signs of trouble. "There was a sudden baan [a Japanese expression emulating a loud noise]," she--recalled later. "It was overhead in the rear. My ears hurt. Immediately, the inside of the cabin became white. The vent hole at the cabin crew seat opened...
...cabin had lost pressure: the white mist was caused by the rush of the cold outside air into the passenger area. The vent to which Ochiai referred was a modification made in wide-bodies after a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost its cargo door near Paris in 1974 and the difference in pressure between the lower cargo hold and the passenger cabin buckled the floor; this disrupted flight controls and spun the DC-10 into the earth, with the loss of all 346 aboard. The vent was designed to equalize pressure in any similar occurrence...
...union said it hoped to persuade the company to change its mind. But unemployment in Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent homeland, is high. The South African Chamber of Mines, which recruits workers throughout the region, already has 400,000 job applications on file. NORTHERN IRELAND Protestants Vent Their Rage...
...world oil demand could be reduced. While demand remains at current levels, these governments will get their money and very little can be done to change these governments that have no internal incentives to improve. Thus, if we want to make a real difference we should not vent our anger at oil companies but instead be examining our own lifestyles and choices...