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Long before the shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry last month, NASA scientists had considered literally hundreds of problems that might threaten the craft's safety - and decided to launch anyway. Columbia had accumulated a thick sheaf of what the rocket business calls safety waivers - problems that NASA had noted but decided posed too small a risk to bother with. "That's a pretty deep stack; it really is," one member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board told TIME. "A lot of these [waivers] are legitimate - every launch is going to have them - but others are things...
...released it, with an X rating, a month after another, more prominent X-er, "Myra Breckinridge," had ignominiously tanked. "BVD" earned a healthy return on investment and a sheaf of favorable notices - though not every critic loved the film. The Chicago Tribune's reviewer sniped at the movie and its tyro scripter: "Boredom aplenty is provided by a screenplay which, for some reason, has been turned over to a screenwriting neophyte." (This was young Gene Siskel, twitting his rival, later partner-rival, Ebert. Here's thumb in your...
Among the "illegal settlers," Hussain was told, was a Middle Easterner of particular interest to the U.S. In the police chief's office, with its vaulted ceilings, the Americans passed around a sheaf of photocopies, each bearing a photograph of a thirtyish Arab with wire-rimmed glasses and furtive, intense eyes. Next to the photo were drawings of how the suspect might look with long hair, with a goatee or clean shaven...
...Among the "illegal settlers," Hussain was told, was a Middle Easterner of particular interest to the U.S. In the police chief's office, with its vaulted ceilings, the Americans passed around a sheaf of photocopies, each bearing a photograph of a thirtyish Arab with wire-rimmed glasses and furtive, intense eyes. Next to the photo were drawings of how the suspect might look with long hair, with a goatee or clean shaven...
...lasting images are more subtle: the determined faces of the swarming fire fighters, some of whom will soon climb to their death; a sheaf of papers settling in front of Jules' lens when he's knocked flat after the tower collapses; the booted foot of F.D.N.Y chaplain Mychal Judge, which is all we see of him as fire fighters carry his body off. In 9/11, what is most disturbing is what you hear, not what you see: the Mayday! calls crackling over radios, the screams of burn victims, the sickening pops of bodies hitting the pavement outside the lobby. (There...