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Early in the summer of 1996, I gathered up the final report on airport security and headed toward the FAA administrator's office. I wasn't looking forward to this meeting. The FAA didn't like me, and had never liked my reports, and if I had missed that message, a fresh signal had just been sent. Secretary Pena had been scheduled to come to this meeting. But then his office must have discovered that the latest airport report was not substantially different from the 1993 study. So he bowed out. The message seemed clear. The Secretary was seeking Washington...
...fact, planes were falling out of the sky. After I resigned, I tried to get one final piece of information out of the FAA that had mystified me for years: the monetary value of human life...
...Obama campaign's recent decision to hold his convention speech in a separate football stadium, the 76,000-seat Invesco Field at Mile High, has created a new set of questions about protests on the final night in Denver. Convention organizers have not yet announced the procedures for ticketing the public for the event, though they say they hope to open the doors to at least some members of the public. "We do want to give some sort of preference to the local folks," said Natalie Wyeth, a spokeswoman for the Democratic convention. "We're working through those details...
...cited her form of dress, virtual seclusion, and submission to her husband as justification. In her petition to the Conseil d'Etat, Faiza M. argued the 2005 ruling violated France's constitutional right of freedom of religion by condemning her observance of Islam. The rejection of that appeal is final...
...research team theorizes that the immense amount of pressure building along the fault causes small cracks within the rock during the final hours before an earthquake, increasing rock density and slowing the transmission signals. "The more cracks you have, the slower the seismic velocity," says study co-author Paul Silver, a geophysicist with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Still unknown is whether there is any significance to the fact that the magnitude-3 quake had a much longer pre-seismic signal than the lower-magnitude quake, or whether it was simply because its magnitude was larger and its epicenter closer...