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...safety watchdogs have been frustrated by the FAA's slow response to their repeated calls over the years for rules requiring pilots to report wake- vortex incidents more thoroughly. "The FAA has got to develop a sense of urgency where wake-vortex phenomena are concerned," says Jerome Lederer, founder of the Flight Safety Foundation in Arlington, Virginia. At the same time, however, the FAA has been urged by cash-strapped airlines to reduce the separation distances between landing airplanes so that carriers can turn the planes around faster to make more flights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Safety: A Bump in the Sky | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

Unfortunately, as Murray attempts to explode the liberal myths of innate human equality (and the blind faith in social constructs), he lapses into promoting more traditional myths of racial superiority. He dismisses the effects of environment as negligible. He ignores the effect of phenomena such as "regression to the mean." And he systematically reifies intelligence by employing I.Q. tests, as if such a statistical invention were a reliable measure of mental aptitude. His attempt to demonstrate the heritability of intelligence essentially proves self-fulfilling...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Dangerous Conservatism | 10/12/1994 | See Source »

Deadhead David Shenk is something of an expert. The 28-year Brown graduate has been attending shows for the last 12 years, and now he's written a book about the Dead phenomena. He was at the Coop yesterday for a book signing session...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: At Harvard, Dead Live Gratefully | 10/1/1994 | See Source »

Scientists were reluctant to call the results a conclusive discovery although there is only a.25 percent chance that the data was caused by non-top quark phenomena...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Evidence for Top Quark Uncovers Last Fundamental Particle | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...next step toward understanding the nature of black holes-and perhaps providing stronger proof of their existence to skeptics-is to look for phenomena similar to the M87 gas mass in other galaxies, scientists...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: HUBBLE DATA NAILS DOWN A BLACK HOLE | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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