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...September 11, supervising work on a French TV cartoon outsourced to inexpensive North Korean animators. His expectations are indicated by two of the items in his baggage: a copy of George Orwell's 1984 and a clandestine AM/FM radio. Those expectations appear to be immediately validated when, at the airport, he can't make out anyone's face because the lights are off. Delisle soon learns that the lights stay off throughout most of the city, to save on power, except when they illuminate huge monuments dedicated to the country's father-son ruling dynasty. This lack of illumination, except...
Christopher Gordon, who led the $4.4 billion renovation of Logan International Airport, will assume the position of chief operating officer for Allston development next month, Harvard announced yesterday...
...feeling was that as we [got] Authority—where Gordon served as director of capital programs and Logan modernization—he oversaw the overhaul of Logan International Airport...
...emergency landing of JetBlue flight 292 at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday showed off that training. The landing gear on the Airbus A320 airplane got stuck on takeoff out of southern California headed for New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. As TV networks locked on to the stricken plane as it circled over Los Angeles and viewers stomachs knotted as they understood that they might be preparing to watch passengers fly to their deaths, the pilots discussed how to handle the problem with company headquarters in New York and technicians from the airplane's manufacturer in France...
...world of reality. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks four years ago and Hurricane Katrina today, public grief and outrage catalyzed the reevaluation and eventual reform of malnourished, incompetent national systems of response and protection. Following September 11, increased funds for national security became available, and airport security multiplied in vigilance in a matter of days. Following Katrina, the cronyism and corruption of power that spawned the likes of Michael Brown were exposed, leading to his removal from the leadership of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Congress also expedited the provision of more than $50 billion in federal...