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Robert M. Coles '50, Agree Professor of Social Ethics at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), will receive the nation's highest civilian honor--the Presidential Medal of Freedom--on Thursday...
...want to kill a planeload of people because we haven't properly identified the people who can do this job." Other Air Force officers point out that the plane has flown without an accident at an Air Force base at Hondo, Texas, where the instructors, who are civilians working under contract with the Air Force, have spent years flying small, piston-powered aircraft like the T-3. "If the engine quits, we know how to land the airplane and walk away from it," a civilian pilot at Hondo says. "The Air Force guys just know how to bail out when...
...sexual relations between male and female recruits at bases across the country. Another study, which surveyed unmarried female Army recruits at Fort Jackson, S.C., reported the "loneliness and isolation" of basic training pushes some into sexual relations with their male colleagues. It is, however, also a continuation of normal civilian behavior. The female recruits were sexually active in the first place: nearly 90% said they had engaged in sexual intercourse with an average of three partners before enlisting...
...Tribune reporters used the Internet to legally purchase an army-issue M-1 assault rifle without registration or background checks, from a member of the Civilian Marksmanship Program ? an official program privatized in 1994. While the CMP requires registration, background checks and proof of marksmanship training before delivering weapons to members of the public, it does not regulate the resale of those weapons. As many as 500,000 weapons have been sold to the public under the program since 1921, and the military has earmarked a further 373,000 for release in the near future. Which may bring a growing...
...distance the air-conditioning units from the tank or fly with it full of fuel--would boost ticket prices. So would "inerting," injecting a nonexplosive gas to decrease the fuel's volatility, although the manufacturer of the $1.5 million inerting units used in some military planes claims that simpler civilian versions would cost just $80,000 per plane. Some inerting gases, however, are potentially lethal: they reduce one danger to passengers but increase another. Cautioned Boeing's chief fuel-system engineer, Ivor Thomas: "We would much prefer to be slow and careful and correct than to rush into something where...