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...passengers. Crashing on a runway often crushes a plane's belly and undercarriage, which absorbs some of the blow. On the other hand, some emergency water landings (both uncontrolled and controlled) have had relatively minor fatalities. This TIME story from 1956 recounts the emergency landing of a Pan American non-jet plane in the Pacific Ocean, when all passengers and crew members made it out alive. In general, airplanes are designed to "float long enough" to get people off the plane, says Brown; in practice, the crew generally has about 90 seconds to evacuate...
...truly fantastic part of this six-year, $26 million initiative is that it is a generous, cohesive, public/private collaboration. The Boston Foundation, a major funder of non-profit organizations in Boston, will be providing $1 million every year. In addition, the State Street Foundation, United Way, the Alchemy Foundation, the Lewis Family Foundation, the Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation, the Barr Foundation, and the Baupost Group will all be supporting the program financially...
...course, Harvard can’t toss money towards every cause in the world, but there is a major problem throughout a community in which Harvard owns over 600 acres of land. Committing research to StreetSafe Boston is not enough. I think the wealthiest non-profit in the United States can afford to be added to the list of problem-solvers...
There's no such thing as balancing the truth. It's a well-done straw man, probably a creation of marketers, not journalists. If a fact is staring you in the face, you don't balance a fact with a non-fact...
...Jacques Mistral, head of economic research at the French Institute of Foreign Relations in Paris says Thursday's move reflects a last-gasp provocation by the Bush administration, which has never forgotten France's emphatic non before the invasion of Iraq. Mistral - who was economic adviser at the French Embassy in Washington during the stormy period from 2001 to 2006 - says the current swipe at Roquefort will prove less economically threatening than the Iraq-triggered American public boycott of France's wines in 2003 - and shorter-lived than the deportation of French fries from Congress' menu. "Even from this administration...