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Eerie accounts from Greek fighter pilots of a co-pilot slumped over the Helios 737's controls before that crash have experts asking if the oxygen tanks provided for decompression emergencies were not filled--the kind of maintenance mistake that stricter oversight might help prevent. The solution, says aviation analyst John Nance, is "total standardization now--and more intolerance of those countries that fail to comply with it." --By Tim Padgett and Sally B. Donnelly
...wants the youth of America and the world sashaying around in garish sequined costumes, hair dripping with pomade, body shot full of female hormones to prevent voice change, mono-gloved, well, then I suppose 'Michael,' as he is affectionately known in the trade, is a good example." JOHN ROBERTS, Supreme Court nominee, in a memo he wrote as a young lawyer in the Reagan Administration advising against giving Michael Jackson a presidential award for his work in discouraging teens from drunk driving; Jackson received the award anyway...
...east Germans for their huge effort to rebuild their economy and society after the fall of the Wall. Ruth Kranz, 37, a teacher from Wolfhagen, near Kassel, intends to vote for Merkel but marvels at the disarray: "It almost looks like Stoiber and the other cdu/csu men want to prevent Merkel from becoming Chancellor. Otherwise, how can you explain such a dumb move...
...wants the youth of America and the world sashaying around in garish sequined costumes, hair dripping with pomade, body shot full of female hormones to prevent voice change, mono-gloved, well, then I suppose 'Michael,' as he is affectionately known in the trade, is in fact a good example...
...Angel, who has seven children, notes a marked deterioration in relations with the police and army since June, when they began closing Gush Katif with roadblocks to prevent potential infiltration by protesters. "It's very frustrating," he says, though he won't comment on the possibility of violence during the withdrawal...