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...predetermined routes, usually on autopilot, and always land at airports. When the weather turns cloudy or the night turns dark, airline pilots have the training and equipment to fly using just their instruments. "You wouldn't get onto an airliner that can't fly through clouds," says Drew Ferguson, lead pilot for Metro Life Flight, which operates EMS helicopters for MetroHealth, the public hospital in Cleveland. "What we do is more dangerous than flying a commercial airliner, no question...
...Life Flight is one of just a handful of programs in the country that always flies choppers with two engines and two pilots. Founded in 1982, the program has logged just under 66,000 patient flights without a single accident. "I wouldn't fly any other way," says Drew Ferguson, Metro Life Flight's lead pilot. "I don't want to die." Cleveland Metro's Sikorsky S76A started life as a taxi for corporate executives. It is heavy, fast, and more expensive to operate than the average medical chopper. Yet even with these added costs, "we still made money last...
...quite dramatic” in his own field. “Out of the eight Ph.D. students I work with, five of them are women,” he said, noting that when he received his doctorate in 1996, there were scarcely any female Ph.D. candidates. Likewise, Sheila Ferguson, the graduate program administrator in the physics department, said that she and her colleagues have noticed the trend “for a number of years now.” Although there are currently more men than women enrolled in the graduate program for physics, 137 compared to 56, Ferguson said...
...Baseball may have adopted the use of instant video replays in 2008, but invented? I don't think so. Rugby league has been using the technology since 1996, and cricket, rugby union and tennis (with Hawk-Eye) have all embraced the concept. Even Manchester United's Alex Ferguson now thinks that there may be a role for "instant replays" in soccer. Welcome to the video gang, baseball. What kept you? Richard Percy, Wigan, England
Professor Niall Ferguson argued that the current economic crisis developed largely as a result of widespread ignorance of financial history, while speaking to a packed house at the Harvard Book Store last night to promote his new book, “The Ascent of Money.” Ferguson faulted the U.S. Federal Reserve for complicity in the stock market bubble, claiming that home ownership had become over-politicized in recent years as a result of efforts by the federal government to increase ownership rates and widespread leveraging of real-estate assets. “Real financial alchemy was performed...