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...first commercial airliner in which the pilots "fly by wire" -- controlling the engines and wing surfaces (rudder, flaps, ailerons) via computers and electronic commands rather than hydraulic or cable linkages. The fallen jet was only the sixth A320 to come off the assembly line at the Airbus Industrie consortium's plant in Toulouse. But the questions arising from the accident apply to the entire aircraft industry, for the planes of the future will be increasingly controlled by computer software instead of human reflexes and judgment...
...program, administered by the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) for the Consortium on Teacher Supply and Quality in the South, will unite three leading graduate schools of education with six historically southern Black colleges in the effort, said Katherine N. Kinnick, Public Affairs Coordinator...
...sums sought by irate debtors are approaching bank-busting sizes. Brothers Herbert, Lamar and Nelson Hunt of Texas are suing a consortium of 22 U.S. and foreign banks for $1.5 billion, charging that the lenders committed fraud and conspiracy to force their silver-and-oil empire into bankruptcy...
...stages, Fineberg said that the Instituteincludes five areas of research: biologicalresearch, which connects scientists in variousfields of expertise: epidemiology, which involvesthe Medical Area experts and the Departments ofMath and statistics at the Faculty of Arts andsciences: clinical research and care, whichfocuses on Harvard's teaching hospitals and theBoston AIDS Consortium, a group of many of thehealth care programs in the area; policy andeducation, which involves all areas of theUniversity; and international cooperation, whichstems from the School of Public Health andincludes health organizations in many developingnations...
John F. Ramsey, associate director of theBoston Foundation, the sole funder of the BostonAIDS Consortium, which combines policy and careissues, said that there has been a recent trendtoward giving to AIDS organizations and thatdonors would be attracted by a program like theInstitute...