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...example, took over twenty floors of the Marriot down the road). Attendance was down this year - from 200,000 to around 125,000. Perhaps it was fear of flying. Perhaps it was the rumor that terrorists were planning to release smallpox at the convention. Perhaps it was the metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs that patrolled every entrance and made getting inside just as much of a crowded nightmare as actually being inside. Or perhaps it was the growing realization that the whole event is as ridiculous an excuse for a paid vacation as a corporate retreat in Maui...
...seen a real revolution in black box technology. Flight data recorders were first mandated in 1969, but the first generation of black boxes, introduced in the 1950s, used metal styluses to etch the information from the plane on a piece of foil that scrolled past. They were really only capable of recording basics like altitude. It wasn't until we got into the digital flight data recorders (in the 1960s) that we started gathering more sophisticated data. And one of the side effects of the FAA mandating modern flight data recorders is that some airlines use their FDR data...
Will the celebration turn into an armed camp? The number of law-enforcement agents and soldiers is being boosted from 6,000 to more than 8,500, and the National Guard, not volunteers, will operate the metal detectors. Concrete bunkers and a 10-ft.-high chain-link fence bristling with cameras will enclose a seven-block area downtown, including the main skating rink, the media center and the medal-awards plaza. Plainclothes cops will patrol the streets, and sensors will monitor the air for germs and chemicals. The no-fly zone will expand to 100 miles beyond the city...
Metalheads almost never allow folk flavors to impinge on their wrathful pounding, so System of a Down, an Armenian-American metal band, is as refreshing as a whiff of shish kebab in a Burger King. Its music has a near Eastern feel, a sound akin to what Metallica might produce in a revival of Fiddler on the Roof. Moreover, the band knows raunchy from bad: drug dealers and groupies get their due tongue lashings. Best of all, the group keeps most songs under three minutes, a suitable dose of new metal for ears still traumatized by old metal's five...
...directive to shorten inspection intervals for the CF6. The order had been prompted by a troubling incident two months earlier. A Varig Airlines 767 had to abort a takeoff after one of its CF6 engines had what is called an 'uncontained' failure, in which the engine partially disintegrated and metal flew out of the engine's casing. According to reports, there have been 61 uncontained low-pressure turbine failures with CF6 engines since...