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...Human error is likely to be cited when investigators complete their probe of the accident. They must determine if enough fuel was loaded in Colombia in the first place. Under international regulations an airliner must carry enough fuel to reach its destination as well as its assigned alternate, plus enough extra to handle at least 45 minutes of delays...
...ground. Fuel shortages turn to catastrophe only if crews do not notice or clearly declare their predicament. Said C.O. Miller, former chief aviation-accident investigator at the National Transportation Safety Board: "The Avianca crew apparently failed to recognize or perceive the immensity of the problem." In the aftermath, that error is not likely to be repeated by other airline crews running perilously low on fuel...
...paper's fate depends on two unpredictable factors. One is whether early issues are lively and error-free; hard-core fans are notoriously unforgiving. The other is whether enough people really want all that coverage every day from all those fancy columnists and feature writers. Onlookers offer scenarios aplenty but admit that the National is hard to assess because it is unprecedented -- one might say, a whole new ball game...
Stanford can afford such educational indulgences. Its graduates will get jobs even if their education is mildly distorted by this inclusionary passion. Not so inner-city third-graders, whose margin of error in life is tragically smaller. And for whom any dilution or diversion of education to satisfy the demands of ideology can be devastating...
...gusts, like a former IRS assistant commissioner who could not adequately explain why he charged the agency for airfare to visit his girlfriend. Burnham's audit includes abuses and inefficiencies that date back more than 50 years. Recent probes by the General Accounting Office have discovered broad areas of error and mismanagement. A study covering 1987, notes Burnham, concluded that the IRS failed to keep orderly accounts of its $1 trillion annual collections. For the same year, the GAO found that nearly half its samplings of 6 million notices and letters that the service sent to taxpayers were "incorrect, unresponsive...