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...inched across the Hudson River, Orman explained how much she admires President Obama. She likes the $787 billion stimulus package, although the size of the debt the government is taking on "scares me to death." When asked whether people suggest that she run for President someday, Orman said, "All the time." In fact, just a few months ago, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin invited her to lunch...
...Born Rush Hudson Limbaugh III on Jan. 12, 1951 in Cape Giradeau, Missouri, which now runs a Rush Limbaugh tour for visitors...
Hero's Counsel. Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who managed a safe emergency water landing of his aircraft in the Hudson River on Jan. 15, testified before Congress last week, suggesting more federal regulation of the airline industry and expressing concerns that deep cuts in pilot pay - his own check has been cut 40% in recent years and he's had to take a second job to make ends meet - are turning experienced pilots away from the field. "I do not know a single professional airline pilot who wants his or her children to follow in their footsteps," Sullenberger testified...
...tend to think of airplane crashes as fatal events. So when survivors emerge from the carcass of a crumpled jumbo jet, as they did outside Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday or on the Hudson River in mid-January, the spectacle is often described as miraculous. But survival in an airplane crash is no miracle. It is the result of more-prosaic interventions, from sturdier seats to more carefully placed emergency lights...
...times the force of gravity (older seats were 9g compliant). Ironically, the long negotiation period and concerns among the airlines that the FAA would make requirements retroactive means that almost all major airlines in operation today already have 16g-compatible seats. (See pictures of the plane in the Hudson River...