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NEWARK, N.J.: Newark International Airport was closed for several hours this morning after a Federal Express cargo jet crashed as it was coming in for a landing. Eyewitnesses said the plane slammed into the runway as it descended and then flipped onto its back, sending flames spewing from the fuselage as it skidded across the tarmac. Miraculously, the plane's two crew members and three passengers survived, scrambling out a side cockpit window as flames quickly enveloped the aircraft. All five people were taken to a nearby hospital, treated and then released, a company spokesman said...
PEDALING PHILATELISTS First the Pony Express. Now the U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team. You may wonder why the Postal Service is sponsoring a three-year $5 million bicycle team when your check is still in the mail. Well, cyclists exemplify swiftness, and the Postals, managed by Montgomery Sports of San Francisco, have won more than two dozen races. This month the team is competing in the prestigious Tour de France. "We don't expect to win this race," says spokeswoman Margot Myers, "but we'd love to get all our cyclists across the finish line on the Champs Elysees...
...confused thoughts on race. "My cousins and uncles wanted to go there and kill them all," he says. One relative phoned to say he had 2,000 rounds left over from the military. His mom said she wanted to "flatten Flint." Kaiser himself tries to express yet contain his anger, using the only words he has at his reach. "Not all black people are niggers. And there are some white people who are niggers. Those black people who messed with us are niggers...
...already suspected that plastics was an "exciting" field--an impression that seeing The Graduate somehow confirmed for him despite the fact that this is precisely what the film wasn't saying about plastics. It is almost as if one were inspired to smuggle hash from Turkey after seeing Midnight Express...
Delta won't make that mistake again. This time it is consistently matching ValuJet's fares out of Atlanta. Delta now has a low-cost airline, Delta Express, to fight ValuJet on its own rock-bottom terms. This is a lesson that the other major airlines have learned in battling upstart competitors, to their considerable profit. Alas, for travelers, the major airlines' profit is the flying public's loss...