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...issue in aviation safety today. The widely held perception is that an airline crash is always a catastrophically fatal one. Yet in more than 90% of airplane accidents, some or all of the people on board survive. That figure could be greatly increased. Crucial problems still exist in safety procedures and equipment, according to a June report on cabin safety by the U.S. National Transportation and Safety Board. Over the past 20 years, the Federal Aviation Administration has improved cabin safety by limiting the size of carry-on baggage, requiring nonflammable seat coverings and mandating reliable emergency-door operation. However...
...Gore camp tried to get a sense of where the public stood, how long it could fight on. But officials said they were not able to poll the issue because there is no money to pay for it. As of 5 p.m. Friday, the campaign ceased to exist legally. Everyone was ordered to turn in cell phones, laptops and pagers...
...Then, like most pop-cultural fashions, this one started to pale. Maybe the talk was too hot (listeners can't stay angry forever). Or political issues lost some urgency in a time when the economy was robust and, for most Americans, the rest of the globe ceased to exist (Bosnia, Belfast, world hunger... yawn). On radio, the sports-talk format took hold; so, late at night, did the extraterrestrial conspiracy theories of Art Bell and his guests. The Radio Right needed a new hook, and a close presidential election was just the thing to energize the commentators and their faithful...
...many other Love Story-esque stories--stories that cross that ignored and unspoken line of economic inequality--exist within our Harvard bubble? How many of us have close friends not only of another religion, race or ethnicity than our own, but who also hail from a different tax bracket...
...student body, we have progressed within the realm of racial and ethnic diversity. Although it happens with less frequency than could be hoped, interracial dating, mixed dining hall tables and diverse rooming groups exist on campus. More important, it's no big deal when it happens, however irregularly that may be. Who knows? Randomization may have yielded positive results after...