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Aviation watchdogs have been baring their teeth in the aftermath of two high-profile crashes in 1996--ValuJet in Florida and TWA off the coast of New York. Regulators have been increasingly willing to bring criminal charges against airlines and their employees for negligence and deliberate disregard of safety guidelines. Federal prosecutors won a criminal conviction of aircraft-maintenance company SabreTech in December in connection with the hazardous material that allegedly caused the ValuJet crash, which killed 110 people. The same month, American Airlines pleaded guilty to criminal charges--and paid $8 million in fines--for illegal handling of pesticides...
...solar storm knocked out Hydro-Quebec transformers, leaving 6 million people in eastern Canada and the U.S. Northeast without electricity for nine hours. The same storm disrupted shortwave radio transmissions, crippled Coast Guard loran navigation systems and had automatic garage doors opening on their...
...four major markets. "Ten million dollars is not a helluva lot of money out here," says California Democratic Governor Gray Davis' top political strategist, Garry South. Davis' gubernatorial campaign spent $1 million just in the last 48 hours of its race. Bradley has already spent considerable time on the coast throughout the fall--and among Democrats, Gore still leads him better than...
EASTERNERS Surprise blizzard pounds coast. Shoveling is one activity that can't be done online
...warm-water baths that kill stomach-sickening salmonella without cooking the eggs or changing their flavor. The final product is even USDA certified. When can you start eating those runny soft-boileds again? The safer eggs, sold under the brand name Davidson's, should be available on the East Coast in time for Easter and rolled out nationwide by year's end. Added cost: about 35[cents] a dozen...