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Inadequate attention to safety concerns is also reported from the ground - in October, a young ground staffer was run over by an inter-terminal bus inside Delhi's international airport. Earlier this month, a state-level minister was hurt when the driver of the boarding bus braked suddenly to avoid a collision at Delhi's domestic airport. The bus driver had been talking on a cell phone...
...That tiger could have been surrounded by 10,000 people," says Dave Salmoni, the Animal Planet network's predator expert, who spent years training big cats; but if the animal has a mission, "it will avoid all of those people and just to go to those three people." Says Salmoni, "There's nothing more focused than a tiger who wants to kill something." The thing is, though, it's not easy to prompt such enmity: "To get a tiger to want to fight you is pretty hard," says Salmoni. "Tigers don't like to fight. They hunt to kill...
...many other perils. But while we generally heed the warnings about cigarettes, seatbelts and sunscreen, we go on having CT scans without putting up the slightest fuss. CT is a controllable risk. Doctors can practice medicine very well, most of the time, without CT scans. We need to avoid them when...
...past two years in anticipation of a stronger loonie. "When you're supplying new vehicles, you have to make sourcing decisions three or four years ahead of production," says Hogan, who is asking his 52 remaining Canadian plants for annual productivity gains of 6% to 10% to avoid offshoring more jobs. Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, says his industry can adjust to a strong loonie rivaling the greenback, but there will be consequences. "We're going to shrink dramatically if the Canadian dollar stays where it's at," says Fedchun...
...member of the elite dance troupe charged with entertaining military top brass. Opposite are a lawyer and some business types. It's my turn to say something. I've played this game many times before with Chinese friends, but I'm lost in the whirlwind of jargon. Keen to avoid a bloodbath in the first round, I make a feeble plea for cool heads to prevail...