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All 217 passengers on EgyptAir Flight 9 9 0 were killed
when the Boeing 7 6 7 crashed into tne Atlantic off the
Massachusetts coast. As search crews recovered pieces of
the airliner from the ocean floor, speculation mounted that
relief pilot Gamil al-Batouty intentionally crashed the plane.
Information collected from the flight data recorder did
reveal that al-Batouty turned off tne engines and deployed
the speed brakes. Although U.S. investigators suspected that
al-Batouty had a death wish, no suicide note or evidence of
terrorism emerged.

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Ron Frehm/AP
The New York Yankees put the
finishing touches on their "Team i
of the Century" designation by
sweeping the Atlanta Braves in 85% Who Wants to Be a MilTonaire
the W orld Series. By beating the
Braves, the Yankees claimed their 10% Greed
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second-straight world championship 4-:, Twenty-One
sweep and the team's 25th World m ulti-m illion dollar TV
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Series win overall. The Yankees shows was your fa vorite?
are the only team in baseball
history to chart back-to-back
sweeps in the World Series,
ABC's surprise hit "W ho Wants to Be a M illionaire" brought television full-
having done it three times.
circle from its infancy, when prime-time game shows were a mainstay.
Hosted by TV's crafty quipster, Regis Philbin, the show became an instant
phenomenon and gave ABC its first sweeps win in five years. The other
major networks quickly followed suit with their own quiz-show clones, such
as FOX's "Greed" ana "Twenty One" on NBC.

A scientific revolution spread across Europe sparked by new technologies and ideas brought from
the Far East by travelers like M arco Polo. Sharing the knowledge of the more than 20 years he
spent in Asia, Polo inspired Europeans to seek out the Orient and Columbus to sail the Atlantic.
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