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Despite the string of mishaps, experts insist the Navy's safety record has improved in recent years. During the 1960s, naval aviators averaged 15 accidents for every 100,000 hours of flying time. By the mid-1980s, the accident rate had dropped to two.
Its critics notwithstanding, Gaia seems to be gaining in influence among both scientists and theologians. To some, Gaia's appeal is that it promises to end the long estrangement of Western science and religion. Even if the biosphere regulates the planet by feedback, Gaia still integrates living things and inanimate...
Individuals who spend time in areas with asbestos insulation are not at great risk,Talcott said. He cited a study which showed thatdaily exposure of children to asbestos in theclassroom would cause only one additional deathper million students each year. The risk of dyingin an automobile accident over a lifetime...
A sense of real-life drama that mirrors the film's content is revealed, almost by accident. An ambulance streaks down the street during an interview and our attention is directed to medics rushing into the neighboring apartments. In a later section, a woman speaks of sleeping on a doorstep...
NOT that I think contempt for rural residents is exclusive to Harvard or to liberals. After all, the similarity of the word "urbane" (meaning "well-bred and courteous") to "urban" is no etymological accident. I'm not even convinced that elitist Harvardians--both liberal and conservative--disdain "rednecks" any more...