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...Last fall, the NTSB said that runway incursions were among the NTSB's "most wanted" improvements. It also said that existing runway safety procedures are insufficient and criticized the FAA for being slow to make improvements. Sometimes large safety issues can be solved with small changes like lighting and paint. Although it has not been ruled that poor signage or lighting is involved in the Comair crash, it has been an ongoing issue that safety experts have been trying to fix. An FAA test project to make runway markings more visible that was begun at T. F. Green Airport...
...someone to do a good job developing/manufacturing/hawking pharmaceuticals--or to be a productive member of society more broadly. Many of us need the deep, underlying purpose of our daily toil spelled out in fancy-pants terms. Why then should parenting be any different? When handing our child a paint set, we want to know we're doing something grander than simply keeping her occupied until dinner. (Expressive planning! Original art!) And since so much of child rearing involves playing the same games, singing the same songs and answering the same questions until your brain goes soft, it's arguably even...
Then again, maybe we're just desperate to find an upside to those blue and red paint spots all over the living-room carpet...
Agassi is old enough to have faced both McEnroe and Nadal, and he's attracted more to Nadal's spray-paint style than Federer's tennis classicism. "Roger just makes it look too easy," says Agassi, who lost to Federer in last year's U.S. Open final and fell to Nadal in the third round of this year's Wimbledon. "He has so many options out there on the tennis court. It's easier to identify with Nadal. Federer puts fans in the position where all they can do is marvel...
...hard to paint places as diverse as India, Mexico and Thailand with one brushstroke, but the story on emerging markets generally goes something like this. As economies in certain countries (China, India) take off, others that are rich in natural resources (Brazil, Chile) get pulled along when commodity prices shoot through the roof. Meanwhile, as many countries undergo structural changes, like floating their currencies (South Korea, Indonesia), the idea of investing in places that come with some pretty scary memories (the 1980s Latin American debt defaults, the 1997 East Asian financial crisis) becomes remarkably more palatable...