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...their laptops, reviewing a new crew schedule. On Oct. 27 the FAA revoked their licenses; commercial flying is a game with no room for error. And yet pilots' jobs are getting harder. Cost-cutting has trimmed starting pay at major airlines to $36,000--little more than a grade-school teacher's. Multiple short flights make it difficult for regional pilots to squeeze in adequate rest. The national air-traffic system relies on antiquated radio and radar; a teenager with an iPhone has more-advanced technology. There are ways to make the skies safer. Improving life in the cockpit would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...have written that you knew you wanted to be a writer since the fifth grade. What made you choose historical writing...

Author: By BETH E. BRAITERMAN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...hope that students take advantage of this week and resubmit their midterm papers and grades to benefit from what surely will be a weeklong bonanza in grade inflation. Parties may take a serious hit, of course, as well as Greek life—but for the long term, students will benefit from this momentary lapse in fun. A week of self-loathing and sexual frustration as Harvard students can do much for Hopkins’s school spirit for the rest of the year. Of course, we sympathize with their athletic teams who may see a sudden drop...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvard Week at Johns Hopkins | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

Emandal is a five-acre farm that brings in third and fourth grade students from the area to show them what farm life is like...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rower Comes Back From Organic Farm | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...Ares rocket doesn’t lie in its physical properties alone. It’s the less tangible inspiration the rocket will provide to future generations of American mathematicians, scientists, and engineers that makes it so important. Education reformers working with students from kindergarten through 12th grade will now be able to look to the rocket as a symbol of hope and inspiration. The Ares will encourage them to imagine even more fantastic goals and products that will be achieved after America repairs its education problem...

Author: By Anthony J. Bonilla | Title: Rocket Science | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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