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...only hint of a potential cause of the trouble came at 6:33 p.m., and it turned out to be misleading. "R5 broken," a crewman reported by radio. "Cabin-pressure drop." The reference was to the right rear door of the plane through which food and supplies are normally brought into the cabin. The door had not been opened at Haneda before takeoff...
Horrified controllers had watched the disabled aircraft drop to below 10,000 ft. and then, at 6:57 p.m., disappear from their radar screens altogether. The 747, still heading north rather than east, had plunged into a slope of 5,400-ft.-high Mount Osutaka, a pine-covered granite peak. Weighing more than 350 tons, the plane buried much of its fuselage in a steeply angled ridge at an altitude of 4,700 ft. Flames spurted into the sky as the impact ignited fuel tanks; even the metal scraps burned fiercely as the 747 sliced through the trees...
...Commerce Department said that the combined total of business sales at the retail, wholesale and manufacturing levels was down 2.1% in June. It was the second-largest one-month decrease ever, exceeded only by a 2.8% slump in March. Homebuilding, meanwhile, was off 2.4% in July. That drop was somewhat mysterious because economists had expected that recent declines in mortgage rates would give a boost to housing...
...within the next 20 years. But few think that women will head half of America's larger companies any time soon. One reason cited by Rand's Smith: "There will always be women who will choose to stay home for family reasons, and either not have a career or drop out of their careers." But whether financial need or ambition sparks their pursuit of a career, the majority of women are choosing to work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more women are working today than ever before, 55% in the latest survey...
...collapsing "is greater than zero. This monetary union doesn't yet have the characteristics of all other durable monetary unions: that they developed into a political union." Switching to a political union with a fully federal government would make it all but impossible for a European country to drop the single currency. That possibility has faded away with the recent votes. If the euro isn't to suffer a similar fate, it needs to show that it brings a real benefit to Europe's economy...