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There are other problems. During a surprise check by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) earlier this month - during Air Safety Week - a pilot was found drunk on duty. The check also revealed that airline crews, including pilots, were often giving dispensing with pre-flight briefings, a serious lapse since they are how pilots get updates on weather and navigation...
...told me she dressed that way (never shorts, skirts, or t-shirts) also because it honored the Muslim custom of covering her body as a woman. Another contrast was between her nickname Pinky - she even typed some of her essays on pink paper - and her serious personality...
...England Journal of Medicine suggests that the radiation from current CT-scan use - estimated at more than 62 million CT scans per year in the U.S. (up from 3 million in 1980) - may cause of as many as 1 in 50 future cases of cancer. It's a serious charge...
...case, the limiting factor may not be how much job training the CLCs have. The more serious concern is that Iraq's shaky economy simply may not have enough jobs to go around. Even with violence falling, unemployment remains high. If the security situation deteriorates further, the economic picture will only get bleaker. At that point, former CLCs may be faced with a choice between unemployment and a return to the ranks of the insurgency...
...also used his position of power to promote his party's platform that includes controversial measures such as forced deportation of foreigners who had been repeatedly convicted of violent crimes, and of immigrant families whose minor children committed serious infractions. The xenophobic rhetoric drew criticism from a United Nations anti-racism watchdog and other humanitarian groups such as Amnesty International...