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...YORK CITY: The increasing likelihood that the crash of TWA Flight 800 was the result of mechanical failure may turn out to be good news for Boeing. The reason? Airlines are now even more anxious to replace their older planes with newer models. Days after Newsday said that a draft report by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the 26-year-old plane essentially came apart in midair, Continental Airlines finalized a $3.5 billion order with Boeing to upgrade its fleet. "That 747 had logged 110,000 flying hours," Lee Kreindler, who represents some of the families in civil...
...realized that special education classes meant her son would in all likelihood end up another statistic in a neighborhood full of statistics...
...make a living being a performer I'll be happy, but there's such a small likelihood of anybody making it that I'm not really counting on it," she said. "But I'll give it a shot for a couple of years
...mass retailers such as the Limited and K Mart, access to cheap (and legal) imported goods is vital to survival in a fiercely competitive industry. The Limited has announced no plans to change its sourcing, and will begin mounting its legal defense in early June. In all likelihood the company is waiting for the issue to fade, figuring that consumers will keep their eyes fixed on the lingerie and not the label...
Even if gene screening remains inconclusive, not everyone wants to toss the tests aside. High-risk women who have had preemptive mastectomies may not regret the decision, since the procedure can mean a 91% likelihood of remaining cancer free--attractive odds in families in which female relatives have repeatedly been claimed by the disease. Even women with a more benign genetic legacy may appreciate the increased knowledge that comes from a positive test and whatever relief comes from a negative one. For now, researchers say, the key may be to look at genetic testing not as firm forecasting...