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...passengers and two crew members died as a result of smoke inhalation as they waited to leave at the overwing exit. During the 1980s, the FAA instituted various measures that demanded aircrafts upgrade the flammability standards of materials on board. The USAir aircraft was built before the effective date of those requirements and had not yet been modernized. All aircraft in the U.S. are now compliant. The requirements were strengthened in 1991, when the FAA required all large transport planes to carry smoke detectors in lavatories, an automatic fire extinguisher in trash receptacles and more fire extinguishers throughout the cabin...
...place and thousands of priceless artifacts, some even looted from the national museum in Kabul, were spirited out of the country. But it was the fall of the Taliban in December 2001, and the subsequent power vacuum, that unleashed the most devastating rape of Afghanistan's heritage to date. "Ironically, poverty and war are what kept these sites safe," says Jolyon Leslie, head of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which promotes the rehabilitation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage. In times of conflict, civilians were afraid to leave home, he says, and the fear of land mines kept many from...
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...passwords, and restarting their browsers. ViddyHo.com also appears to have been taken offline. The inconvenience came on the same day that side effects from Google’s routine technical maintenance work left millions of Gmail users without service for over two hours. This was the worst outage to date for Gmail, which serves 113 million users worldwide, according to the Financial Times. Joshua A. Kroll ’09, former president of the Harvard Computer Society, said users should take care not to click on unfamiliar links. He also said that TinyURL.com includes a preview feature that can give...
...After working as a Seattle prosecutor, Locke was elected to the State house, where he began his 22 years in public office. Elected Governor in 1996 (he was the first, and remains the only, Chinese American governor to date), Locke served two terms before declining to run again...