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...improved passenger survivability in airplane crashes. In testimony to members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Candace Kolander, air-safety coordinator for the Association of Flight Attendants, a flight-attendant union that has long pushed for improvements to onboard safety, listed three main successes that are proving to save lives. (Read "How to Survive a Plane Crash...
...Korean economy. For example, South Korea hasn't developed the kind of social services, such as day-care centers for the children of working parents and homes for the elderly, that would relieve some of the financial burdens on working-class families and encourage them to spend rather than save. "What tended to be taken care of in the household could become more marketized," says Lim Won Hyuk, an economist at the Korea Development Institute in Seoul. "There is a lot of room for job creation...
...Tibetans are being uncovered daily. But this revolutionary contingent remains small. Most Tibetans still preserve their piety in the face of degradation. When a television tower is dumped on their shrine, most Tibetans simply smile and keep on praying. Their transcending peacefulness is inspiring, but it will not save their culture...
...Cambridge branch of Ten Tables has also expanded, trading in the literal ten tables of the seven-year-old Jamaica Plain location for twenty. The menu, with its European-inspired cuisine, has similarly grown from five entrees to seven, and the wine list has doubled in length. Partly to save money, partly because they did not realize the enormity of the task, Kranyak, along with her chef and sous-chef, renovated the new Cambridge space themselves. Kranyak said the former occupant’s seven year legacy included a lot of “wear and tear...
...recently written a letter to Congress and the President to ask for help, as her school is crumbling and in need of repair. "We are not quitters," the letter said. Obama faced his audience. "We are not quitters," he repeated. (Read "Sparing a Dime to Save a College...