Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That training will be something of a new experience for Glenn, who is used to being the captain of any ship he flies. The flight plan for the October mission lists seven Discovery crew members, from Curt Brown, the commander, to Steve Lindsey, the pilot, through three mission specialists and two payload specialists. Glenn's is the last name on the list. No sooner did the crew first meet last January than Glenn made it clear that the chain of command was fine with him. "They wanted to call me Senator, and I said no," he says. "I'm coming...
...first patient to benefit from the pilot program was Della O'Leary, 60, a part-time receptionist with no health insurance and an $8,000 bill for gallbladder surgery. Would she be interested in using her keyboard skills to enter data into a hospital computer? O'Leary agreed. After she worked 20 hours a week for four months, her debt was paid. "I was brought up to take care of my bills," O'Leary says. "Without this program, I was going to be paying little by little for the rest of my life...
Weston is not the first person involved in a murderous incident who had earlier found his way into the Service's files. Samuel Byck first caught agents' attention after making a threat against President Nixon's life in 1972. In 1974 Byck killed a policeman, an airline pilot, then himself in a failed effort to hijack a DC-9 that he planned to crash into the White House. In 1975 agents evaluated Sarah Jane Moore and decided she was not dangerous. Then she fired a gun at President Ford. "Washington is kind of a mecca for nuts," says a federal...
...idea that massage helps sickly babies. Yet only a handful of hospital nurseries in the U.S. offer massage to these tiniest of patients. Hospital administrators remain skeptical of claims about its therapeutic value, and since most HMOs don't cover baby massage, there's little incentive to start pilot programs. Besides, harried nurses can barely handle the steady stream of critically ill infants with special needs, much less find time to give thrice-daily rubdowns...
...upwardly mobile parents, baby massage is becoming what Lamaze was to the previous generation. Classes that teach parents Swedish and Indian massage techniques to use on babies are springing up around the U.S., often with long waiting lists. Inner-city teen mothers are learning baby massage in special pilot programs to build parenting skills...