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When was the last time you shuffled off a commercial airliner and saw just one pilot in the cockpit? Probably never. Federal rules require two pilots for every airline flight, and all airliners must be equipped with GPS, weather-tracking and collision-avoidance systems. Airliners fly predetermined routes, usually on...
The No. 4 Harvard women’s squash team (5-0, 3-0 Ivy) opened up 2009 with a convincing 8-1 victory on the road Friday over No. 6 Stanford (2-6). The win sets up a battle of unbeatens with No. 3 Trinity at the Barnaby Courts...
Airline disasters may grab the front-page headlines, but in Asia, ferry accidents are more common - and deadlier. Last year, nearly 1,500 people perished in nine major ferry accidents in the region. The death toll for airline crashes in Asia was 93 in four incidents. Last year's biggest...
If the violence ends soon enough and the papal trip can be salvaged, Benedict's arrival in the region would inevitably be much more political than he might have initially hoped. "He wanted to make a voyage of faith. But the context has changed," says the Vatican source. "Now the...
California has found itself in this financial quagmire as a result of a collision of events. "It really has been a combination of things that have created the monstrosity that we are now in," says Barbara O'Connor, director of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media at...