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...audit blitz began in the aftermath of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in January 2000. That airline not only had a widely admired safety record but also was operating under the careful view of the FAA's most rigorous oversight program, the Air Transportation Oversight System (ATOS). After the crash, the FAA rushed to discover what went wrong with its oversight as well as with the airplane's mechanical systems. Immediate changes were ordered in Alaska Airlines' operations...
Much of Shanghai's so-called urban renewal stems from similarly short-sighted greed. In the mid-'90s, China's largest metropolis went on a building blitz. Across the muddy Huangpu river, a futuristic realm called Pudong materialized, filled with hubris and towering skyscrapers. Shanghai's suburbs expanded into the countryside, with pink-tiled apartment blocks promising a leisured lifestyle to the city's middle class. But in the late '90s, Shanghai's building boom went bust. With occupancy rates plummeting to a dismal 35% in some areas, real-estate developers panicked. So did the city government, which had counted...
...with atmosphere, ambient glow, and with the time of your life when you felt most alive and at home in the world. It was the moment the world seemed thoroughly wonderful. Best Year may seem an illogical choice. Brits may think fondly of the war years, even of the Blitz...
DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, vacation visionary who steered Club Med from beachfront commune to worldwide, multimillion-dollar resort chain; in Paris. The child of Algerian Jews, Trigano fought against the Nazi occupation of France alongside Gerard Blitz, who would later found the trail-blazing retreat business. After the war, Trigano wrote for the communist newspaper L'Humanit? before starting his 30-year career as helmsman of the company that delivered mai tais and tropical sunsets to the world's middle class...
...state, the swine industry famously generates mountains of waste - some 19 million tons a year - and critics have long charged that the industry pollutes the air and water illegally. This week the country's biggest hog processor and producer, Smithfield Foods, is expected to be the target of a blitz of lawsuits filed by environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a posse of class-action lawyers who are mounting an assault against the hog industry nationally...