Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It was Mueller's misfortune to be part of the 52nd Fighter Wing, the outfit that mistakenly downed two U.S. Army helicopters over Iraq in 1994, killing 26 people. The 52nd's commanders had failed to bring the two F-15 pilots to court-martial for their central role in...
But a little more than a week ago, the grand promenade to Mars turned into a near Earth lob shot, when a booster malfunction sent the spacecraft plummeting back to Earth shortly after its launch. For a time it looked as if the craft was going to hit Australia, endangering...
And so it has gone for Danish novelist Peter Hoeg, who followed his brilliant thriller, Smilla's Sense of Snow, with a couple of mannered, too-clever fictions, A History of Danish Dreams and Borderliners, that found their balance somewhere between interesting and irritating. And the glum report here is...
Russian policymakers, especially those still inclined to see their country's relationship with the U.S. as intrinsically a rivalry, may fall into the trap of defining what is in their national interest as anything that annoys the U.S. or causes us problems. If the reflex to score points in a...
A more thoughtful treatment of the ultimate boating mishap can be found in a Discovery Channel documentary that aired in October, as well as in four new books, three of them novels. Historian Steven Biel's Down with the Old Canoe argues against the notion that the Titanic's plummet...