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...Marines have opted to save the plane and have largely shifted responsibility for surviving such a catastrophe from the designers to the pilots. While the engineers spent years vainly trying to solve the problem, pilots aboard a stricken V-22 will have just seconds to react. But tellingly, pilots have never practiced the maneuver outside the simulator - the flight manual forbids it - and even in simulators the results have been less than reassuring. "In simulations," the flight manual warns, "the outcome of the landings varied widely due to the extreme sensitivity to pilot technique and timing." The director...
...book Your Money and Your Brain, author Jason Zweig says humans are wired to act this way. The amygdala, a tiny, -almond-shaped knob of tissue in the brain, responds to potential risk by flooding the bloodstream with stress hormones such as corticosterone, which enable us to react quickly to danger. These emotional warning flares can be lifesavers if, say, you encounter a snake, but the sudden waves of emotion make it hard to stay calm in the face of a whipsawing market. Zweig says brain scans reveal that merely being told that you're losing money is enough...
...more critical than Petraeus' unsettling answer was the questioner - G.O.P. Senator John Warner of Virginia, who recently announced his impending retirement after 30 years in the Senate. Earlier in his career, Warner had served as a Marine and as Navy secretary. While the courtly Virginian didn't react openly to Petraeus' answer, it plainly marked yet another demerit in the book of those lawmakers increasingly careful in weighing their support...
...room waited to see how the President would react, Hemming said he would welcome any questions or comments. Bush looked across the room at him and said, "Morale. How's morale?" "It's very good sir," said Hemming...
...recent study, is untroubled by that, arguing that the very condition that eliminates the ability to consent is the one the surgery seeks to correct. His position is hard to challenge. A patient for whom the neural lights go on for the first time in eight years may react in a lot of ways, but he's unlikely to insist he should have been left in the dark...