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Time and again, my office uncovered practices that would shock the public: sloppy inspections of planes, perfunctory review of pilots, lax oversight of airline procedures, disregard for bogus airplane parts, sievelike security at airports, antiquated air-traffic-control systems. Only with a major crash, only with people dead and sobbing survivors filling television screens, does the FAA step up to the plate and make changes. I found the FAA's complacency toward accidents difficult to accept...
...Later this week, U.S. District Court Judge Joan Ericksen in Minneapolis plans to rule on a petition to expand the march time and route for protesters at the Republican Convention. In Denver, U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger will hold a hearing on July 29 to review the march routes and public demonstration areas that have been permitted for the city...
...confidence that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is abiding by his word to stand down his nukes. On Saturday, China's delegate to the talks announced that Pyongyang had in fact agreed to the broad outlines of a deal to let international inspectors visit North Korean nuclear sites, review documents and interview technical personnel. The North also said it would allow the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency to be part of the verification team, even though in 2003 Pyongyang pulled out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and expelled U.N. inspectors from the country...
...Catholic world - as there are, as the Vatican always points out, in all walks of life. In Australia, victims' rights groups are calling on the Pope to respond as he did in the U.S. This comes as news that the Catholic Church in Australia has been forced to review allegations of sexual assault by a priest committed more than 20 years ago. The Melbourne-based support group Broken Rites says it has been contacted by 3,500 people in the past two decades complaining of Church-related abuse...
...book was published June 10, and got a great review in the Times four days later. The following week it hit the best-seller list. This should please him, but Wroblewski is still a software dude. "What bothers me is there's not 2.0 process," he says. "I can't go back and release a new version." Then again, he doesn't have to worry about Google stealing his business...