Word: strays
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...pilots do, Marty and Marcot would have taken one last, careful look down the runway, looking for objects on it--anything from a stray airport truck to the dreaded flocks of birds, which have caused problems for pilots at Charles de Gaulle for years. Marty knew the delicately engineered supersonic engines on the Concorde are particularly vulnerable to what the aviation community calls FOD: foreign-object damage. A piece of stray garbage, or rubber from a blown aircraft tire, passing through a high-speed turbine can cause the engine to fail--or worse. That is why military personnel usually scour...
...MOUTHFUL Folks with problematic heart valves--those that leak, are too thick, too thin or have been replaced altogether--should be prescribed antibiotics before particularly bloody dental procedures so that bacteria in the mouth don't stray to the heart. Are doctors giving patients the proper pills? A study shows that while 90% of folks with artificial heart valves are prescribed antibiotics, only 60% of those with less extreme conditions are getting them. And unbelievably, 25% of people with a perfectly normal heart are given antibiotics. Advice: if an echocardiogram doesn't show a heart-valve problem, don't take...
...theory the other day in a long, occasionally hilarious interview he gave, along with his wife, Barbara, to The New York Times' Frank Bruni. The interview took place at the Bushes' family compound in Kennebunkport, Me. The obstreperous Mrs. Bush kept interrupting her husband in order to fire stray shots at Al Gore, and the former president would testily shush her. "What are you doing?" he asked her at one point. "You're not going to be in this interview if you're going to start talking like that. George will call and he'll be furious." The interview sounded...
...there are death issues too. David Sanes was a close friend of Jose and Julio's; he played first base on their local baseball team. When Sanes, who worked as a security guard, was killed by a stray Navy bomb in April 1999, it galvanized Puerto Ricans--including U.S. Congressmen up in El Norte--whose protests shut down the Navy's Vieques operations for more than a year. Last January, Bill Clinton, who feels Puerto Rico's pain--especially now that Hillary needs the votes of New York's Puerto Rican emigres--made an agreement with the island's government...
...eloquent defense of the award choice, Silvetti declared a cease-fire, an "end to hostility between fashion and architecture." Although fashion is a "new monster" (in comparison, one supposes, to the venerable menace of modern architecture), Silvetti maintained that its aspirations don't stray too far from those of its design ancestors-both architecture and fashion aim to protect us, establish our identity and merge with the human form. And yet the question of whether the design traditionalist unfairly dismisses fashion design as "impure" was insufficiently answered. The Excellence in Design Award was developed in conjunction with...