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...circles. A surprise ending to this one? He's coy, but promises it will be unique: "I'm an Indian living in Philadelphia--I can't help it!" Disney execs, who paid eight figures for the script, are counting on a hit--and hope the surprises stay on the screen...
Current Red Cross procedure asks potential blood donors about their sexual history, and attempts to screen out homosexual men, who they say pose a higher disease risk...
Many BOND members criticized the science behind the Red Cross’s decision to screen out the gay population...
...Controllers all over the eastern United States might have already realized this day had turned into hell. The screens that glow in darkened rooms in hundreds of facilities around the country are the linchpin of an air traffic system that manages tens of thousands of flights a day. The system is almost dull in its routine. Controllers and pilots use regular routes, fly prescribed altitudes along decades-old highways in the sky, and most important, are in constant contact. Controllers are like flashlights in the dark for commercial airplanes: those FAA employees know what's going...
...national command center in Herndon, Virginia, some 30 miles from Washington, the usually predictable patterns on the small, 21 inch screens, as well as the huge 10 foot screen that display the nation's air traffic control system in action would have started to go awry. By several minutes after nine, the two airline representatives that sit alongside their FAA colleagues at the Center would have heard about the terrible call that dispatchers at the American Airlines operation center near Dallas Ft Worth airport had fielded: a flight attendant on board flight 11 had called the center, via an emergency...