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...Airport when a bomb-sniffing dog incorrectly drew attention to a rental truck, and at Houston's Hobby Airport, where a flight was grounded after a college student joked to a ticket agent that her luggage contained guns, grenades and a bomb. Technological glitches wreaked havoc not only in Fremont but also in Miami, where an air-traffic-control center lost power for an hour because of a lightning strike. Both sorts of delay no doubt enraged stranded passengers; but slowdowns are usually proof of caution. Says Linda Hall Daschle, the FAA deputy administrator: "In every case, priority...
Then there was California. In mid-August, Joe Dimas, a controller at the Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center in Fremont, watched his radar screen go blank. Then the backup failed. And his radio died. "This was the scariest thing I've ever seen," says Dimas, who with his colleagues was guiding 295 planes. A 20-year-old generator and its replacement had blown. During the 35-min. blackout, a United Airlines Boeing 757 nearly collided with an Alaska Airlines MD-80. Hundreds of flights were grounded...
Judge Thayer Fremont-Smith ruled thatBattenfield could not recover damages from thealleged sexual harassment that occurred in1988--including Ostrowski's uninvitedkisses--because a suit must be filed within sixmonths of the alleged incidents...
...then that these tiny, high-tech chips have become the latest target of the international crime set. A few tales from the cyberfront: in Greenock, Scotland, three knife-wielding masked men overpowered a factory guard last month and stole $3.7 million worth of chips and related computer parts; in Fremont, California, burglars disarmed a security system and made off with more than $1.8 million of chips and computer equipment in a January warehouse heist. And outside Portland, Oregon, five gunmen bound and gagged 12 workers at a semiconductor plant last fall and fled with $2 million worth of chips...
...Fremont-Smith also ruled that Harvard is liablefor its employees' failure to investigate, butthat Shinagel may not be individually heldresponsible for his actions. And he dismissed theclaims of defamation against Schopf, Ostrowski andShinagel on the grounds that the statements werematters of opinion...