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...even if the Arizona-based airline had known, says spokeswoman Janice Monahan, disorderly conduct, even if it involved alcohol, "probably would not have been a disqualifying situation." The FAA concurs, but an agency spokeswoman says it is "always re-evaluating [its] policies." She notes that pilots who self-report alcohol problems are given counseling and can return to work if they quit drinking. About 1,000 airline pilots who have finished that program are flying again today...
Curt Schilling is the more talkative half of the greatest one-two pitching combination in baseball today. He and fellow Arizona Diamondback ace Randy Johnson were co-MVPs in last year?s World Series. Tonight Schilling will play in his fifth All-Star game. He tells TIME's Mitch Frank what it?s like to be an All-Star, whether players should be tested for steroids and how computers help give him an edge...
...hurt was the suspicion that some of the fires they were fighting were set by their own people. Just three weeks after the discovery that Colorado's vast Hayman fire was started by Forest Service worker Terry Barton, officials announced that they suspected the so-called Rodeo blaze in Arizona had been set by part-time firefighter Leonard Gregg so that he would get paid to help...
...spot troublemakers in their ranks, psychologists are asking deeper questions. What is it about fire that so seduces and unbalances people hired to control it? What is it about being humans that draws us to flames and repels us as well? As environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne of Arizona State University points out: "Human beings as a species have a monopoly on fire. But while we're physically equipped to handle it, we do not come programmed...
...being the first to sound the alarm. "There's a need to be the hero," says George Miller, president of the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM), "to be there with the rest of the men putting the fire out." As seems to be the case in the Arizona fire, there may also be a financial incentive. For part-time firemen who get paid by the blaze, the odd bit of arson can be a handy way to generate cash flow...