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...office a mile from a runway at London's Heathrow Airport, Philip Bowles grips an official-looking piece of paper. A pilot since he was 18 and now CEO of Airfreight Express (AFX), he is holding a copy of the most important document in aviation safety: a work card. These government-approved forms are used to document repair or maintenance of all aircraft. "Trust still exists in the aviation industry," explains Bowles, "because when these forms are completed, an airline can be 100% certain that the aircraft is airworthy...
...done. Then in January, Abbott discovered not only that the flap carriage had not been lubricated but also that part of the carriage had in fact broken off. If AFX had flown the plane in such a condition, it could have damaged the airframe or at worst caused the pilot to lose control of the plane, AFX contends...
Consider Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, the brains behind the ubiquitous PDA, the Palm Pilot. They left Palm three years ago and started Handspring with a scheme for a competing PDA, the Visor. Within 15 months, Handspring was shipping its new Visors, thanks to Flextronics and Solectron. And now the Visor has 7% of the $4.3 billion global PDA market...
...this: reading is about to become a privilege, not a right. Publishing companies are licking their lips at all the potential opportunities to make you pay for copyrighted collections of 26 characters and punctuation. You won't be able to move them, reread them, download them to your Palm Pilot - and you certainly won't be able to lend them to a friend - without their say-so. So many security systems and cryptographic keys are being developed to lock up your favorite authors, it would make your head spin to list them...
Massachusetts is one of the first states to release guidelines for providing resources to deal with adolescent perpetrators and has ten pilot programs for violent boys, according to the research study...