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...anything to go by. After the National Transportation Safety Board reached a preliminary analysis that the crash that killed 217 in October was caused by a suicidal co-pilot, GAMIL EL-BATOUTI, Egypt applied political pressure in Washington and is spending freely on a public relations effort. A slew of experts were hired to press the issue for EgyptAir, including former NTSB chairman CARL VOGT and several former NTSB investigative specialists. Those hires paid off last week, when Aviation Week claimed U.S. investigators were doubting the suicide theory and instead were looking at mechanical failures as the key cause. "That...
...Alcohol introduces a slew of added dangers and it's vital--especially for girls--to watch out for your friends. When you're watching overgrown teenagers instead of adorable tykes, babysitting loses its charm, but it's a fact of college life. Just don't let it become your entire life...
...mind in high school; many of us fought, tooth and nail, to make the grades so that we could get into Harvard Med. Others brushed up on case questions for months before that fateful interview for BCG. We think that we'll take a couple of years, make a slew of cash, and then sit back and do what we really wanted to do with our lives. Go sailing. Climb Kilimanjaro...
...what should you buy? The current array of devices--cell phones, PDAs, beepers and more--bewilders even the experts. "Every few months there's a slew of new products that have more features, perform better and are priced lower," marvels Ira Brodsky, an analyst with Datacomm Research. But you've already got plenty of choices. A cell phone is a good bet if most of your wireless connectivity is going to be done by voice. These "smart phones" have the added advantage of being less expensive than a PDA. It's not hard to find a cellular service that will...
...oughtn't be allowed to die in peace. Although the decision has not yet been made public officially, a number of Chilean sources have indicated that Chile's Supreme Court on Tuesday voted 12-10 to lift the former president's immunity from prosecution, opening the way to a slew of prosecutions for kidnapping, torture, murder and other human rights violations during the general's 17-year dictatorship. Pinochet eluded a court date in Spain earlier this year when the British government ruled he was too ill to stand trial, and sent him home, where the general had presumed...