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...twice a chopper's speed. As pilots like to say, military flight manuals are written in blood. The growing question around the Osprey is whether its rotor design has a tendency to push the aircraft into a roll that quickly turns into a fatal plunge. Such dives "can occur at any time and consequences are exceedingly grave," according to an unreleased General Accounting Office report circulating on Capitol Hill. "The V-22 appears to be less forgiving than conventional helicopters...
...While there are thousands of airports across the U.S., more than 70 percent of commercial traffic is concentrated at the 28 largest facilities, where airlines are apt to employ their "hub-and-spoke" systems. That is where the vast majority of delays occur. Yet building a new runway is such a complex and costly process that adding just a strip of tarmac can take decades because of local opposition of many kinds - political, economic, environmental. Nobody really wants a jetport in the backyard. Seattle-Tacoma international airport got local approval for a new runway in 1993, but it still hasn...
...most important interactions that occur between students and faculty outside of the classroom are in the advising process. Advising at Harvard happens--or fails to happen--in three tiers: first-year advising, house advising and concentration advising. Today, first-years must seek advice from either a proctor who knows them personally but knows nothing about their field, or an outside advisor who knows about their field but absolutely nothing about them. We need to consider creating a support network of advising for first-years, involving faculty members who will interact with first-years more regularly and who also have...
...waiting turned to months and the reality of the situation set in. No one cared. No one was even going to give us the courtesy of a response - not even that promised form e-mail, for Pete's sake. For a while longer, we just waited. It did occur to us that a lot of the jobs we wanted were being filled pretty quickly. Condoleezza Rice and Tommy Thompson swiped two of the really prime spots right off the bat, and it took us a few days to get over that disappointment, let us tell...
When it comes to hip fractures, the most dangerous place for elderly Americans, it turns out, is their homes; nearly 60% of these dangerous spills will occur in or around the patient's domicile. This isn't all bad news, however, because a few simple, inexpensive modifications could prevent a lot of accidents...