Michael Crichton (born 1942) is best known as a novelist of popular fiction whose stories explore the confrontation between traditional social and moral values and the demands of the new technological...
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Michael Crichton has had a number of successful careers--physician, teacher, film director, screenwriter--but he is perhaps best known for pioneering the "techno-thriller" with novels such as The Andr...
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Michael Crichton has been called a "megastar" who has made a resounding impression on the literary world. Critics applaud him as a writer who is entertaining to read and who can "elaborate a gripping ...
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Teaching Airframe
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Airframe Lesson Plans contain 126 pages of teaching material, including:
It has swept-back wings, small fins near its nose and a turbofan engine. It knocks down enemy planes with missiles and guns, or bombs targets on the ground. It's called the Jian-10 or J-10 (Jian me...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghanistan's fledgling air
corps, short on planes and pilots, will be unable to fly combat
missions before at least 2013, a U.S. general said
Thursday. "It's not just air f...
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SEOUL, Feb 3 (Reuters) - North Korea received a huge boost
from Soviet technology to develop its ballistic missiles and
still relies on foreign suppliers for key components, a report
obtained on t...
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Peter Huntsman, president and CEO of the chemical company that carries his family's name, said he couldn't leave a big pile of money on the table by ignoring a last-minute buyout bid.That's why Hun...
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ISLAMABAD - Police blocked opposition leader Benazir Bhutto
from visiting Pakistan's deposed chief justice and President
Pervez Musharraf resisted U.S. calls to end emergency rule. Bhutto, herself...
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Beijing (dpa) - China and France signed major deals for passenger
jets and nuclear reactors worth nearly 30 billion dollars on Monday,
after the nations' presidents vowed to...
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The war to end all wars -- WWI -- had ended. America was heading into the Roaring '20s.Indeed, business was about to boom -- except for the fledgling flight industry. That idea, launched 15 years e...
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The forward and center fuselage sections of Boeing Co.'s first 787 look lonely at one end of the sprawling factory. There are no overhead cranes that lower pieces of the plane into position, no hug...
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Sixty-five years after an American P-38 fighter plane ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in Wales, the long-forgotten World War II relic has emerged from the surf and sand where it lay buri...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Air travel really is getting safer, with a marked
drop in the number of crashes round the world, a year-end survey by a
German aviation magazine, Aero Intern...
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