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...wiring problems? Since 1992, the FAA has issued a number of airworthiness directives expressing concerns with the electrical systems of MD-11s. Though A.D.s are not necessarily unusual--the FAA issues 400 a year for problems of varying degrees of urgency--several of those issued on the MD-11 refer to potential fire hazards. A 1996 advisory mandated the installation of an extra control-cable guard in response to "reports of burnt electrical wire cable in the cabin attendant console that was caused by the chafing of the wire cables." Another, in 1997, sought to correct "chafing of wire bundles...
...letter to TIME included an incorrect phrase inserted by the editor that mistakenly referred to transgender people as "those whose deepest awareness of their sexuality doesn't correspond to the physical parts they were born with" [LETTERS, Aug. 10]. The term "transgender" is political and does not refer to any specific anatomy or sexual practice. It includes the full range of individuals who challenge society's perceptions of gender, including, but certainly not limited to, transsexuality. As a health center, we offer health care based on medical facts and empathy and not on prejudice or stereotypes. We would deem...
...reward for being a suck-up. Ballmer operates at a decibel level bordering on OSHA's mandatory ear-protection threshold, a one-man surround-sound. He and Gates, who became fast friends in 1973 during their freshman year at Harvard, have always enjoyed what they refer to as a "high bandwidth" relationship; it means they can scream at each other but are still able to listen and respond. "We fairly well anticipate what the other guy is thinking, and can finish each other's sentences," says Ballmer of his 25-year relationship with Gates. "That doesn't mean we always...
Wary of what he calls "philosophical catchwords," Schroder does not refer explicitly to the Third Way. The phrase seems to mean not simply a compromise between right and left but a synthesis of fiscal conservatism with social responsibility that can appeal across a broad middle. Schroder recognizes the idea in the rise of a like-minded international fraternity. "There's a mainstream of modern social democratic thinking, trying to find answers to the new questions arising from globalization," he says. "The main question is balance: how to modernize the society and modernize the economy and have social security...
...permeated her abdomen and left her writhing in pain. Several operations paid for by her HMO failed to remove all the offending tissue. Then her primary-care physician told Halm about a specialist in Atlanta who had developed a novel technique for treating the disease. The HMO refused to refer her, saying there were plenty of specialists in Ohio who could care for her. (Name one, she said. They wouldn't.) Halm appealed the decision for nine months with no response. Finally, no longer able to bear the pain, she borrowed $10,000 and paid for the procedure herself...