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...carry them. Initial versions contained literal tape recorders and were about the size and shape of a basketball. After a number of black boxes were destroyed in crashes (the tapes melted in fire), they were moved in 1965 from their original position in the landing wells to the rear of the plane - the area most likely to survive an impact. That same year, they were also required to be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility. (Watch TIME's video of the rescue of US Airways Flight...
...facing a rough economy. Just two weeks ago the The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released a report stating that the organization did not see an end in sight to the Italian recession. Following Friedman’s hypothesis, it would make sense that xenophobic tendencies might rear their ugly heads right about...
...listen in silence on the other end of a White House speakerphone as the Delaware ear bender tries to ride herd on the stampede for dollars known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the $787 billion monster that is the largest domestic-spending effort in U.S. history. "My rear end is on the line just like yours," Biden barks, surrounded by a flock of aides in his West Wing office. "I'm the guy in charge of this deal. So if this doesn't work...
Investigators are still sorting through the wreckage of Monday's crash of two Metro rail cars in Washington, D.C., the deadliest in the system's 33-year history, which killed nine people and injured scores of others. Federal officials said on Tuesday that the train that rear-ended another was an older model that lacked equipment that might have helped avert the collision and, according to the Washington Post, had been overdue for needed brake work...
...basically tough talk [but] moderate action," says retired Navy rear admiral Stephen Pietropaoli, who now runs the nonprofit Navy League. "The alternative - forced boarding - would almost certainly lead to confrontation; possible loss of life; possible retaliation; and a high degree of likelihood that the North Koreans could sucker us into a confrontation over a load of Kewpie dolls or something equally nonthreatening." (See pictures of the suspected Syrian nuclear reactor allegedly built with the help of North Korea...