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...amazement, Abbott says, he discovered that Evergreen had drilled a hole in the wrong place in a flap track on the left wing, creating a serious flight-safety risk by weakening the entire track. (The flap track supports one of the four flaps on the plane, a critical flight surface.) In another case, also described in the lawsuit, Evergreen was instructed to inspect and lubricate the flap carriage on the wing. (Lubrication is an essential flight-safety issue: failure to lubricate an internal part properly is thought to be the leading cause of the Alaska Airlines crash...
Heart surgery is an artistic performance to benefit an audience that is sound asleep at the time. A man you've met only once slices open your chest so your heart can be stopped and chilled so a loose flap in your mitral valve can be sewn up. No big deal when it goes right, which, with an ace surgeon, it should...
...middle, that captures the mouse alive. We have caught a mouse on each of the last two nights (baiting with peanut butter, of course). I come into the kitchen and find the little prodigy, eyes bright with terror, scrunched in a corner of the cage, under the flap door. It's possible that part of his unhappiness arises from humiliation at being fooled by such a childishly transparent device. He finally looks at me, however, directly in the face, and I am astonished at a hard, still, appraising look in his eyes, which reminds me of the fixed gaze...
From the CO2 emissions flip to the arsenic-standards flap to the energy-plan-rollout flop, George W. Bush has spent much of his presidency battling the popular impression that his White House, particularly on environmental issues, is operating under a corporate sponsorship. And some Republican poll-watchers think Bush?s only way to convince the public that his version of "balance" does more than pad Big Business? balance sheet is to borrow a page from Al Gore?s campaign handbook. "They haven?t given anyone a reason to believe Bush isn?t doing the bidding of corporate America...
Chaos theorists suggest that a flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil could set off a chain reaction that results in a tornado in Texas. The interdependent world of Italian finance works in much the same way. Early this month, the automaker Fiat - admittedly, a rather large butterfly - joined in a hostile bid for Montedison, a conglomerate whose far-flung holdings include Italy's largest private-sector electric company. Such transactions would hardly seem to be the stuff of high drama. Yet that one move called into question the power of the élite investment bank Mediobanca - which owns...