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Gloucester's men have been suffering for years as declining stocks and stringent regulations have cut down on their catches. But the fishermen who are staying in port these days are doing so because they cannot get or afford insurance for their boats and because, in most cases, they cannot sail without it. "I don't know what to do," says Favaloro, spreading huge hands scarred by a lifetime of handling nets and lines, and relating how the cost of his insurance has doubled since 1981. "Either I borrow on my house to buy insurance or I leave my boat...
...considered, applicants must be U.S. citizens and have five or more years of full-time professional experience reporting contemporary events in print or on television or radio. There is no age limit, and aspirants who reach the final selection process will be screened by a new, less stringent medical standard established by NASA for such civilian projects: free of disease, injury or other condition likely to interfere with the mission or preflight training; eyesight correctible to at least 20/40 in the better eye; able to hear a whispered voice from 3 ft. away (hearing aids are permissible); and a blood...
...others at Harvard—more serious, more worthwhile, not merely one that could benefit us by teaching us skills or making us contacts but one that conferred a real benefit on the student body and on the University as a whole. Whether it was a question of how stringent our conflict-of-interest policy should be, or how we should describe anonymous sources in our paper, or whether we should allow sources to review quotations before publication, the constant refrain at The Crimson is “What’s the New York Times’ policy...
...media, amid periodic waves of criticism, are re-examining how often to use unnamed sources. Some publications now are more aggressive about getting sources to agree to be identified. After the fall of USA Today's Kelley, who had fabricated quotes, people and whole scenes, the paper adopted more stringent guidelines to ensure that anonymous sources be used only as a last resort and that their identity be made known to a senior editor. Some papers, including the Washington Post, routinely state in their stories why a source has declined to go on the record. Says Leonard Downie...
...Since 9/11, Reagan National has been the most restricted major airport in the country, with virtually no private jet flights allowed of any kind and with the most stringent security measures imposed on commercial flights in and out. Traveling in and out of Reagan, for example, airline passengers must remain in their seats within 30 minutes of take off and landing. Reagan has also been the site of two recent security scares when small propeller aircraft unintentionally entered the restricted airspace around Washington and were chased by military fighter jets. Both planes landed without incident...