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...agency also faulted an internal review board at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) for sloppy oversight that “regularly failed to be substantive and meaningful...
...wife of her husband, Chuck Hunt. She got embroiled in a nasty fight with two Turnpike Authority board members she tried to fire for voting against a toll increase. She was tainted by a patronage scandal at her former employer, Massport and was put on the spot for lax oversight when two of the Sept. 11 terrorists sailed through Logan Airport security. And when the economy went south last year it took the state budget with it, leaving her with a huge shortfall...
...process of federalizing security screeners will be complete, and some airports will have begun bringing in private firms who will operate under government oversight. Still, most experts agree that airline security is nowhere near as tight as it needs to be. "Things will have to be much different for the airlines to gain back trust," says Richard Gritta, professor of air finance and economics at the University of Portland's Pamplin School of Business. Gritta predicts a far more invasive style of security than we're accustomed to, including use of super high-definition x-rays that reveal, um, everything...
...Hastings Center--and that includes the couple's capacity to function as parents. It would be hard for a woman with such a medical history to adopt. But the reproduction business is virtually unregulated and profit driven, with the ethics improvised at best. "There is a need for general oversight," argues Parens, "instead of the free-for-all we now have...
...Warrington may be getting out just in time. Last October, the Amtrak Reform Council, a federal oversight board, concluded the nation's floundering passenger-train operator has no chance of becoming self-sufficient by the end of 2002, as Congress mandated six years ago. Now that it's clear Amtrak can't go it alone, Congress will have to decide to pony up, or essentially give up on intercity passenger service altogether. The big questions: Does America need Amtrak? And should we expect a national rail system to exist without federal help...