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...reported. The plane, a Fokker-100 belonging to TAM regional airlines, took off at 5:45 EST this morning and, according to Globo, dipped right sharply, struck an apartment building and eight houses and burst into flames. As live TV coverage showed a row of bodies covered with black plastic on the sidewalk and firemen sprayed smoking bits of the airplane with hoses, the search for casualties amid the rubble on the ground continued. The crash occurred about one mile from the runway. Patricia Almeida of Globo reported "perfect" weather at takeoff and had no information as yet about...
...Indians (Pantheon; 272 pages; $23) catches child psychiatrist Mike Devlin just short of burnout, mortally sick from seeing damaged children. He is no longer surprised, for instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches from plastic soldiers. Nothing new, but "Devlin realized with a dreary fatigue," the author writes, "that he would be obliged to discover the reason for this detail...
...suspect ran into the Quincy House courtyard, where Pierce reported seeing him throw a marijuana pipe and a small plastic bag into the bushes at Quincy...
These crosscurrents reflect a particularly stormy period in America's love affair with charge cards. With more than 1.1 billion pieces of plastic already crowding consumers' wallets (the typical user carries six or seven different cards), the 7,000 banks and companies that issue all this credit are struggling to protect their profits and gain whatever edge they can. For some this has meant flashy new offerings like the $100,000 (as in credit line) Platinum Plus card that M.B.N.A. America Bank of Wilmington, Delaware, launched earlier this year. (Just tell that Rolls-Royce dealer...
...testers were concerned about the fragility of the Pilot, which comes sheathed only in a thin gray plastic case. The screen seems especially delicate; we cracked one by accidentally sitting on it (hardly a fair test). Fortunately, US Robotics offers quick repair service, and Pilot comes with a substantial warranty. US Robotics promises that the next version will be more durable--and possibly smaller still...