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What caused the disaster? The first and perhaps most significant clue was found the morning after the crash by the crew of a Japanese destroyer cruising in Sagami Bay. The sailors discovered floating on the waves a 15-ft. section of the 747's 35-ft.-high vertical tail fin. Further searching in the water turned up more than 30 other plane parts, most notably a 10-ft-long portion of the rudder assembly and a 104-lb. fiber-glass duct containing tubing and valves that had been attached to an auxiliary power unit in the tail section (see diagram...
Harris eventually found a Lubavitcher couple willing to open their home to extended observation. Over four years, Harris visited them in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., where 15,000 Lubavitchers live. The pseudonymous central figure of Harris' book is Housewife "Sheina Konigsberg," not a born-and-bred Hasid but a baalat teshuvah (female "returnee"). Financially comfortable and reared in a Jewish family that was only moderately observant, Sheina joined a supportive community of Lubavitchers in the Midwest after a divorce from her first husband. To the dismay of her children, Sheina subsequently entered an arranged marriage and moved...
Less than a month after they moved into their tidy brick row house in Elm-wood, a white working-class neighborhood in the southwest section of the City of Brotherly Love, Williams and Bloxom, who are black and unmarried, decided to move out. Said Bloxom: "We can't live in a neighborhood where my child is scared to come in the house." Williams, a shift supervisor at a fast-food restaurant who had bought the $21,000 home in early November from the Veterans Administration with $500 down, said he was stunned that anyone could be so vilified...
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...might be wondering why Google, Yahoo, The Microsoft Network and America Online (the Web version, that is) were nowhere to be found in this year's Coolest Websites roundup. We didn't forget about them-we simply collected all our favorite new features for this bonus section. Here are some cool things you can do at the four of the biggest planets in cyberspace...