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...That headline was extraordinarily misleading,” says Pepsi spokesperson Kelly McAndrew. “We knew the property had been purchased by Harvard, and when you’re in a location for 47 years you’re going to make decisions about what’s needed...
Next Jan. 24, chief pilot Lanny McAndrew will be entrusted with a $57 million airplane, the lives of more than 100 passengers and the perfect safety record of his employer, JetBlue Airways. He will slide into the left seat of the A320 aircraft's cockpit, fly one of JetBlue's routes and return home to New York City. The following day McAndrew, 59, will no longer be qualified to be an airline pilot. "The government says overnight I'll become old and sick, so I better check into a hospital, right?" he asks mockingly...
...McAndrew and thousands of other airline pilots are caught in one of the U.S. government's most controversial regulations: the so-called Age 60 rule, under which the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires commercial-airline pilots to relinquish the controls the moment they turn 60. The FAA, which issued the rule in 1959, says it was prompted by safety concerns about older pilots--concerns it says still apply...
...bloody hand' syndrome," says an aviation expert. "No one wants to support a change and then see a 67-year-old pilot crash a plane full of people." If the petition is rejected, Yetman's group plans to file a lawsuit against the FAA immediately. Meantime, McAndrew will keep flying. But maybe he should start thinking about a second career. Aren't some Washington politicians thinking about raising the age for Social Security benefits...
Junior Co-Captain Melissa McNabb and freshman Kate Roiter represented Harvard at first doubles. The "gimps" (McNabb is nursing a stomach pull, while Roiter suffers from a shoulder injury) defeated BC's Hope McAndrew and Melissa Robbins...