Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Westfall-Lake and "wellness supervisor" Jill Thieman have spearheaded a pilot project at a gas-gathering and -processing operation in the Four Corners. Some 400 shiftworkers, including field technicians, plant operators, maintenance workers and office staff, receive information about health and safety via an Intranet site, corporate fairs, family events and special classes. Employees can use company-owned vehicles to car-pool (thus minimizing driving fatigue), take time off while at work to exercise briefly on treadmills and stationary bicycles, and use light boxes that are designed to suppress melatonin, which induces sleep. So far, a third of those involved...
...love letter to New York City and, more so, to Jennifer Love Hewitt, this spinoff of the wheezing Party of Five captures both in luminous visuals--the pilot looks as if it cost as much as a full season of That '70s Show. But the writing seems decidedly more cut-rate. Hewitt's Sarah Merrin heads east to find her biological father and take a bite out of the Big Apple, dropping Holly Golightly-isms like, "Give me one good reason why I should not spend the night dancing!" This star vehicle, thus far, is a shiny subway to nowhere...
...General Counsel. Last spring, on the day of a large rally outside University Hall, Harvard became one of the first schools to promise that its anti-sweatshop policy would require licensees to publicize the locations of their overseas factories. Over the summer, Harvard spearheaded a five-school, $250,000 pilot monitoring program, the first university initiative actually to visit a sweatshop...
...despite these moves, Harvard continues to hedge its bets. Soon after it committed to full disclosure, Harvard joined the FLA, which eschews full disclosure. And though Harvard expresses doubts about the FLA, its own pilot program looks quite a bit like it, with monitoring by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and no disclosure of data or factory locations...
...threat to public safety, that option was never considered in the case of Stewart's plane. Though the Learjet is equipped with masks and other depressurization emergency equipment similar to that of an airliner, some experts believe that insidious - rather than sudden - depressurization can confuse and disorient a pilot to the point that he or she would be unable to react. Others insist that the warning systems would have alerted the pilot to a slow leak, making an explosive depressurization a more likely scenario. "All we can say for certain right now," says Hannifin, "is that this incident may well...