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Sturdier Seats Congress's Airport and Airway Safety Act of 1987 called for regulators to improve what is called the "crash-worthiness standard" of seats - in effect, the likelihood that they will crumple and crush passengers at impact. It took 17 years to accomplish the task, as the Federal Aviation Administration tussled with aircraft manufacturers and airlines that balked at paying for the upgraded seats. The FAA produced evidence that sturdier seats could have prevented 45 fatalities between 1984 and 1998. A deal was reached. In 2005, the FAA mandated that all U.S. aircraft built after October 2009 meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving Crashes: How Airlines Prepare for the Worst | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...fine place to close the curtain, with the band flourishing in its contented third act as the one group people of all ages can agree on. Except that U2 isn't quite content. After an almost five-year absence, during which Bono was named one of TIME's Persons of the Year for his work on global poverty and the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band returns on March 3 with an album called No Line on the Horizon. It offers up a few new hits for the wedding playlist, but No Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U2's Unsatisfied — and Unsatisfying — New Album | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...Freshman Phenom,” but only six people (counting me, the girl who was working at the Pent House café, and the person who promoted this Acoustic Tuesday over house lists) trickled in to the top floor of the SOCH to listen to Pete Davies' solo guitar act...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover | Title: Solo in the SOCH | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...Storlazzi added that a relatively flat tuition would act like financial aid for all students at Yale...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Tuition Upped To Match Financial Aid Demand | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...hastily arranged press conference at his sprawling home on the outskirts of Lahore, Nawaz Sharif raised the political temperature with a fiery attack on Zardari. "The nation should rise against this unconstitutional decision and this villainous act of Zardari," he said, his face swollen with rage. In a sign that the country was returning to the politics of the 1990s - a period when four civilian governments collapsed in the span of a decade - the former Prime Minister resurrected accusations of corruption. "Where are those millions of dollars?" Sharif asked in reference to allegations that Zardari salted away the spoils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ruling Throws Pakistan into New Political Turmoil | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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