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...Buffalo. “This is very autobiographical,” boasts show-creator Ricky Blitt, a veteran writer on “Family Guy” and good friend of MacFarlane. Set in 1994, the show is an extended flashback narrated by Glen 13 years later. The pilot begins with Glen and his parents watching police cars chase O.J. Simpson on the news. But if it seems a little soon to be doing a nostalgic retrospective on 1994, MacFarlane says that’s exactly the point. “[It’s] a tongue-in-cheek thing...
...turns out, do not fly upside down. I know this by hard, albeit simulated, experience. I was on the stick of an 21-ton MH-53 helicopter, one of the largest crafts of its type in the world, at the Iwakuni Air Base in western Japan. My co-pilot and instructor - an officer in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) - guided me as I lifted the copter off the ground and pointed it toward the virtual Akinada Sea. A little spin over the water, no problem, and then my instructor asked me to turn around for home. I pulled...
...stress of space travel. "To be commercial viable and safe, we need data on the way people react to g forces and the psychological experience of going into space. We don't know that yet," says Alex Tai, Galactic's chief of operations - and the man who will pilot first Virgin's first spaceship. One possibility is a ride in a centrifuge to see how passengers will react to the g forces. For now, however, there aren't a lot of requirements other than deep pockets...
...change is currently being phased in through pilot programs at a number of Harvard-affiliated hospitals...
...exemplifying how any site in any location with any mission trains better when students have relevant interactions with the faculty and with their patients longitudinally,” said Hirsh, who also helped design Harvard’s third-year pilot program at Cambridge Hospital...