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...Cockpit doors have been hardened and passenger screening tightened, and pilots may soon even get the right to carry guns aboard flights. But one aspect of airline security has not improved since Sept. 11, according to a flight attendants' group: defense training for flight crews. "Every day flight attendants go to work as unprepared for an attack as we were on Sept. 10, 2001," says Patricia Friend, head of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), which represents 50,000 at 26 airlines. Although Congress mandated last November that flight attendants receive cabin-defense training, the AFA claims the training...
Among the Heroes, based on voluminous interviews as well as cell-phone calls and black-box tapes from the flight, is a chronicle of that battle and a memorial to the fallen. There is much that we may never know: Who rushed the cockpit? How close did they come to saving themselves and getting home? And why, exactly, did these people fight back...
...save money for the payout, a move that could cripple the fledgling airline. Meanwhile, management is trying to put old hostilities to rest by organizing training sessions and social events that bring pilots from the two sides together, though there are no immediate plans for them to share a cockpit. "Reconciliation may take some time," Baumgartner concedes...
...Among the Heroes, based on voluminous interviews as well as cell-phone calls and black-box tapes from the flight, is a chronicle of that battle and a memorial to the fallen. There is much that we may never know: Who rushed the cockpit? How close did they come to saving themselves and getting home? And why, exactly, did these people fight back...
...often talk about the aesthetics, says Bodman, preferring to concentrate on sales. Another aim is to raise questions about the morality of violence in games like Mortal Kombat, and the relationship between such content and real war. An art installation by Mark Dean uses footage shot from the cockpit of a World War II bomber. "It's asking you to think about what you're doing when playing games," says Bodman. "It's warning us to remember what we're seeing." The link between games technology and other disciplines is also explored. A local architectural practice has used software from...