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...Instrumentation (HEI) grant, with which the hospital will install a multimodality pre-clinical imaging platform. The device—which will be used by the hospital’s Longwood Small Animal Imaging Facility (SAIF)—can perform three different types of X-ray imaging of plane sections of the body. “Imaging is very important because it allows research without sacrificing the animal,” said Robert E. Lenkinski, one of SAIF’s directors. In addition to facilitating Harvard Medical School in its cancer research, the equipment will also greatly enhance endocrine...
...have an education, a fantastic education,” said HCC Production Chair Samantha H. Fink ’07. “There are people across the world who never get basic schooling.” All of the comedians are performing for free, and JetBlue has donated plane tickets for their travel. Two of the comedians, Judah Friedlander and Modi, performed in last year’s show. Friedlander has appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm and in the movie Zoolander, and Modi has been on the Howard Stern Show, Comedy Central, The Sopranos, and Last Comic Standing...
...Lidle's plane was under "visual flight rules," meaning the pilots - not air traffic controllers - are responsible for keeping an eye out for other aircraft or obstacles. Lidle did not (and was not required to) file a "flight plan," or detailed route, with the Federal Aviation Administration before taking off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. General aviation planes like Lidle's typically have transponders that automatically send out a signal that makes them visible on an air traffic controller's radar...
...unclear who was actually flying the airplane, and who was monitoring air traffic control, though the NTSB's Hersman said Lidle had gotten his license on Feb. 9, 2006. It is standard practice in an airplane emergency for one pilot to focus on keeping the plane stable and aloft while the other pilot handles the radio and troubleshoots the emergency...
...Ironically, the plane's unique emergency equipment was useless in this case. Each Cirrus plane has a large parachute that can be deployed to allow a plane in trouble to float safely to the ground. Several Cirrus planes and their pilots have been saved by their parachutes, and the chute apparently gave Lidle an impressive amount of confidence in his $187,000 plane. "The whole plane has a parachute on it," Lidle told the New York Times last month. "Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land...