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Even after recalibrating for the four fatal hijackings, air travel is still statistically safe in the U.S. But compared with the rest of the world, the U.S. takes the middle road when it comes to airport security. Israel's El Al still sets the highest standards (see box). Put up against Swiss-cheese operations such as those in the countries once part of the Soviet Union or Thailand, where corruption at the airport is endemic, the U.S. is a model of tightness. But compared with the top airports in Europe and Asia, the U.S. continues to lag. In India, only...
...opponents banged down doors haranguing the horrible disturbance women would cause to the already deadly history of military science. In the words of Anna Quindlen: “A new Navy training program, for the first time in history, features sexually integrated boot camp. After all the arguments about fatal distractions, they’ve discovered that putting men and women together actually improves training and fosters the much-vaunted cohesion. ‘It’s more cooperative and there’s more teamwork,’ said one instructor. Armed forces, meet real life...
These keep levels of serotonin and norepinephrine high but are only about 60% effective in reducing ADHD symptoms. Tricyclics have also been associated with more troubling side effects, including fatal heart attacks in those with a history of heart-rhythm disturbances...
...diversity of their peers. Consider Jennifer Strickland, 17, a humanities student from Bainbridge Island, a wealthy, secluded suburb of Seattle. By the spring of her first year, she had become so involved in the college community that she joined a group of students in a march to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. "Seattle Central has kind of made me realize I had been living in a bubble for the past 10 years," says Strickland. "Now I see political injustices and want to change them...
...been a harvest blaze or the remnants of a cooking fire. But as she stood in the cornfields of this hardscrabble corner of southwest China, Zhang knew better. Like a fisherman's wife who scans the seas when the weather turns turbulent, a coal miner's spouse recognizes the fatal signs: a thread of smoke, a muffled boom and then a rush of blackness flowing from the charred earth. "I knew he had died the moment I saw the smoke," says 36-year-old Zhang of the gas explosion that claimed her husband and others this spring. "The nightmare...