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While still unproved, the hypothesis is stirring a debate about an aeronautical phenomenon called wake vortex. That dry bit of technical jargon refers to the rotating, high-energy tornadoes that spiral behind and downward from the wing tips of an aircraft. Such turbulence behaves much like the wake of a ship: the heavier the vessel's displacement weight, the more violent and long lasting the disturbance. In air, as on water, if a craft trails this whirling vortex too closely, it can be buffeted brutally. For more than a decade the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents, has exhorted...
...Wake vortex began to emerge as the prime suspect early this month, after a Safety Board member told reporters that the NTSB was trying to determine the effect the bump had on Flight 427's controls and crew. Last week the board was more cautious. "This is an ongoing investigation," said spokesman Mike Benson. "No probable cause has emerged...
...Bruck amply demonstrates, Ross's charm made him a natural for Hollywood, where everyone is a vortex of ego and where success belongs not to those who count the beans but to those who extravagantly spoil the stars. If Barbra Streisand wanted a painting, why not buy it for her? If Dustin Hoffman was vacationing in Europe, why not provide him with a yacht? If Steven Spielberg was looking for a home in the Hamptons, why not arrange the sale for him? "It's about people, really -- realizing what they want," Ross once told Bruck...
...news from Northern Ireland that it is easy to forget how the current cycle of the Troubles began in 1969 as civil rights protests over discrimination against Catholics in jobs, education and housing. But Adams has not forgotten. These were the issues that first drew him into the vortex of political battle...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Manon" at 5:30 p.m. A bold taleof faith and faithlessness between two strangelyrestless young lovers in the vortex of postwarFrance...