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Safety record. i flew the thing myself and it is a spectacular engineering achievement. it's a very safe aircraft. i think about the track record of how many there are, how often they fly, and nothing really happens ever with the 777. it's a remarkable safe aircraft. going back to engines, these planes tend to record the condition in flight. so the minute tense may have had preliminary information. you're exact. until they look at the recorders and the actual engines themselves, we're not going to know the story. >> paul, interesting there were no distress calls put forward. what does that tel...

Flashlight that pops right in. >> it's like an "as seen on tv" ad. professor, tell me what the improvement to the world -- tell me what we are going to do with a microscope like this. >> well, what andy's been able to do is eliminate the need for electrical power by using a battery-powered flashlight. and he's been able to dramatically reduce the cost of the microscope. today clinical laboratory microscopes can run between $20,000 and $40,000. and they're not rugged enough to be taken to developing world settings. he's managed to come up with a rugged, lightweight, portable, battery-powered mi...