Word: checklists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bodies. At Webster Groves each student is assigned to one of the school's six guidance counselors, who keeps tabs on them for all four years. But it's those closest to students--teachers, coaches and even peers--who serve as the primary mental-health detectors. Teachers receive a checklist of the signs of adolescent depression, ranging from "lack of concentration" to "crying spells" all the way to "thoughts or plans of suicide." If a student matches the profile, teachers alert a 16-member team, led by Ferrugia, that intervenes by contacting other teachers and parents...
Lewis wrote in an e-mail message that the report "wasn't a blueprint of a checklist, but few people could have ever gone into an office like this with more detailed notice of how their minds work...
...American doesn't take many chances when it comes to procedure -- the airline programs its lists directly into the console, calling for pilots to flip a switch after each task is completed. Copilot Origel has told investigators that he recalled reading the checklist while Buschmann flew the jet, but investigators still haven't been satisfied about why certain steps -- first and foremost the deployment of the wing spoilers -- apparently weren't performed. A mechanical postmortem may help them decide; the wrecked plane got the Flight 800 treatment on Tuesday and was moved to a hangar for autopsy. The plane...
...that wet runway in Little Rock last Tuesday night, but it seems the pilots are back atop the list of suspects. Sources close to the investigation told USA Today that chief pilot Richard Buschmann and copilot Michael Origel seem to have skipped all or part of their landing "checklist" that airlines use to make sure their pilots follow proper procedure, especially during takeoff and landing. (Buschmann was killed in the accident; Origel survived.) Did the pilots chuck the book when they got a look at the hairy conditions on the ground? Or was it a different sort of foul...
...event, Yuri Agrawal '00 passed out a checklist for students that included tips on conserving water, energy and other limited resources...