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...Because the recession has already moved to most parts of Europe and much of Asia, the demand for US exports has dropped sharply. That also undermines business output and job creation. Businesses which count on overseas consumption get the air taken out of their sales...
...months have been the deadliest yet: there have been 18 helicopter-ambulance crashes since October 2007, including 11 fatal accidents that left 36 people dead. "The current accident record is unacceptable, and it has to improve," says Robert Sumwalt, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates air crashes...
...medical-helicopter industry, the longest inquiry in the board's history. The hearings will be the title fight in a long-simmering argument over medical-helicopter crashes and how to prevent them. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has sole power to regulate helicopter flight, and the Association of Air Medical Services, the industry's main trade group, maintain that most accidents have nothing in common, making it difficult for the FAA to impose tough safety rules. "Each accident has a different set of facts that leads up to it," says Peggy Gilligan, the FAA's top safety official...
...hours later, the rebels carried Sister Marķa to the front line. From there, a group of nuns took her to the Rutshuru hospital, where both her legs were amputated. The next day, Father George again asked MONUC to take Sister Marķa to its base for an air evacuation. Again MONUC refused, and the nuns took her themselves once more. Almost 36 hours after the U.N. first learned of her being injured, a MONUC helicopter picked up Sister Marķa and flew her the 10 minutes to Goma. "What is their point?" Father George says of MONUC. "They...
According to Abed Rabu, a third Israeli soldier then popped out of the tank with an M-16 and fired a single shot. "I didn't understand what happened," says Abed Rabu. "I thought he was firing in the air, and then I looked down and saw my 2-year-old daughter lying there with her insides spilling...