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Marx may have nixed Christmas, but he said nothing about April Fools' Day, and one Mir crew took advantage of the oversight. On April 1, 1988, cosmonaut Musa Manarov alerted the ground that he had found a mysterious string of numbers written, inexplicably, on the outside of the station. His call was received by Vladimir Bezyaev, a mission-control radio commentator who had been chatting with the cosmonauts and was in on the joke. Bezyaev played it straight, relaying the news to the rest of the control room. "Mission control completely believed [Manarov]," he says. "They even asked...
...audit blitz began in the aftermath of the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in January 2000. That airline not only had a widely admired safety record but also was operating under the careful view of the FAA's most rigorous oversight program, the Air Transportation Oversight System (ATOS). After the crash, the FAA rushed to discover what went wrong with its oversight as well as with the airplane's mechanical systems. Immediate changes were ordered in Alaska Airlines' operations...
Freeh may hope the blue-ribbon panel he quickly named under the friendly hand of former FBI Director William Webster will save the agency from a nasty probe. The proud FBI hates the very idea of any outside control or oversight. After Ames' treachery was discovered, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich produced a scathing review of the bureau's inaction and confusion when a highly placed mole was first suspected. Freeh enlisted Webster, charges a former Justice Department official, "as a pre-emptive strike to another inspector general investigation...
Strucker agrees, noting PBHA's excellent oversight of most education programs...
...main source of embryonic stem cells is "leftover" embryos from IVF clinics; cloning embryos could provide an almost unlimited source. Progress could come even faster if Congress were to lift the restrictions on federal funding?which might have the added safety benefit of the federal oversight that comes with federal dollars. "We're concerned about George W. Bush's position and whether he'll let existing guidelines stay in place," says West. "People are begging to work on those cells...