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...analyzed the seating charts of more than 100 plane crashes and interviewed 1,900 survivors and 155 cabin-crew members, he discovered that survivors usually move an average of five rows before they can get off a burning aircraft. That's the cutoff. In his view - and he's done a lot of statistical analysis - the people who are most likely to survive a plane crash are people who are sitting right next to the exit row or one row away. Not a particular exit row but any exit row. That's the person most likely to survive. Beyond...
...know what the exits are, what the equipment is. I want to know what's under my seat. I actually reach under the seat with my hands and touch to make sure that my life jacket is actually there. So the safety briefings are very important. The FAA has done research on safety briefings, and they find that the least informed people, those that don't pay attention to the safety briefings, are frequent fliers. They think they know all about flying and all about planes, so they get on a flight and pick up their Wall Street Journal...
...More recently, some 100,000 people participated in an interactive feature on the transition website Change.gov, which allows people to vote on questions they want Obama to answer. Some popular examples: Will you legalize marijuana? Will you appoint a prosecutor to investigate possible Bush Administration crimes? All this was done with almost no publicity and barely a whisper of encouragement from Obama himself. As a scholar of online politics, Personal Democracy Forum's Micah Sifry, puts it, "I think Obama is sitting on a volcano...
...aftermath of ferry disasters, while blame is usually assigned, little is done to prevent recurrences. Asian government officials say there is widespread awareness that maritime safety ought to be improved - but that budget constraints and bureaucratic roadblocks impede progress...
...unclear whether the moves will save lives any time soon. In May, Indonesian lawmakers approved sweeping new regulations for the maritime industry, including measures boosting safe operating procedures. But the law has yet to be fully implemented. "We've done about 40% to 50% of what we need to do," said Jusman Djamal, Indonesia's transport minister, during a Jan. 12 press conference held in the wake of the country's latest deadly accident. The previous day, a ferry traveling from Pare-Pare on the west coast of Sulawesi island to the Indonesian city of Samarinda had rolled over...