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Regular people are often more comfortable assessing risk than officialdom expects. They may not be perfect at it, but they do it every day. Nancy Bort of Arlington, Va., landed at Washington's Dulles International Airport on the first flight from London Heathrow after the arrests. The plane arrived nearly two hours late, and the passengers emerged clutching plastic bags for their passports and not much else. But Bort was unfazed. "I still think I have a greater chance of being hurt in a car accident than getting killed by a terrorist," she said...
...Once it took off, the seven-and-a-half-hour plane ride did go smoothly. There was even some comedy aboard. "When the flight attendant said to turn off electronic devices, people were laughing hysterically because nobody had anything," said Nancy Bort of Arlington, Va. Bort seemed unfazed, despite having been on a flight dubbed "red" by the Department of Homeland Security. "After seeing what's going on in the world in general, I don't know how you can worry about this," she said later in a phone interview. "I still think I have a greater chance of being...
Their final appeal denied by the California Supreme Court, four Fresno Bee newsmen last week became the largest group of U.S. journalists to be jailed for a single story. The Fresno four-Managing Editor George F. Gruner, former City Editor James H. Bort Jr., and Reporters William K. Patterson and Joe Rosato-will not be released until they tell how they obtained secret grand jury testimony quoted in a 1975 story about local corruption, or until a judge becomes convinced they cannot be forced to talk. Before the four entered a county prison farm at Caruthers late last week, they...
...Golden's absence, Restic plans to use four defensive backs most of the time, rather then keep backup adjuster back Bort Broyer in there all the time. Regardless of who actually plays though. Harvard's secondary, could be in for a long afternoon. The defensive backs played well last week, but were helped along considerably by the sandwich play authored by ends Fred Smith and Mike McHugh that sent Lion quarterback Don Jackson mumbling incoherently to the sidelines...
...first quarter hit a new record. Another reason for Oppenheimer's optimism: De Beers is about to begin manufacture of a synthetic diamond that he hopes will cut deeply into the 30% of the U.S. industrial-diamond market now held by General Electric's synthetic bort...