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...that happened 27 years ago this week with Air Florida in Washington and TWA Flight 800 and the Egypt Air event in 1999 - these were all cases that the plane had clearly crashed in the water, but did so in an uncontrolled way," says Curtis. Water landings can result in fatalities as well; in 1970, an ALM airlines flight from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport to the island of St. Maarten ran out of fuel after missing three approaches in heavy weather, forcing the pilot to ditch in the Caribbean; 20 of the 57 passengers on board died...
...isolated inner city neighborhoods. There are major structural barriers which retard the development of Black inner city communities: joblessness, social isolation, social decay and discrimination. But in addition to all this these communities are in the midst of a kulturekamph of Black-on-Black violence which is a direct result of the political crisis of fatherlessness. At the root of the instability of the Black ghettos is the fact that there is not a functional patrilineal system that governs the communal life by physically maintaining order as occurs in other working class neighborhoods, regardless of race or ethnicity. When...
...Airbus A320, has engines designed to handle damage from birds weighing up to 4 lb., according to Todd Curtis, founder of AirSafe.com and an aviation-safety expert. Canada geese - the suspected culprits - weigh an average of 10 lb. More than 219 people have been killed worldwide as a result of wildlife collisions since 1988, according to the volunteer organization Bird Strike Committee...
...avoids a fight with Republicans in the senate. Instead, Democrats like Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Kent Conrad have been critical of the bill. Obama wants a bill passed with 80 votes, clear bipartisan support, but that vision has shrunk the bill, rendering it much less effective. As a result, Obama risks alienating his Democratic base. Many Democratic senators have shown clear disapproval about the plan’s size and its emphasis on business tax cuts as opposed to government spending. Obama’s admirable vision of bipartisanship should not come before what is best for the American...
...states blank checks, lavishing the most cash on the ones that do the most driving and paving, actually mandating that federal officials "shall in no way infringe on the sovereign rights of the states to determine which projects shall be federally financed." It's our money, their choices. The result is that Congress does a terrific job of spreading dollars around the country like peanut butter but a lousy job of identifying or promoting national priorities. "There's no performance measures, no environmental or economic analysis," says the Brookings Institution's Robert Puentes. "It's just about dividing...