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When the A.D. club decided to close its doors to non-members--a huge switch for what many viewed as the most frat-like of the final clubs--some undergraduates were not even aware of the change. And most of those who were expressed unhappiness...
...American doesn't take many chances when it comes to procedure -- the airline programs its lists directly into the console, calling for pilots to flip a switch after each task is completed. Copilot Origel has told investigators that he recalled reading the checklist while Buschmann flew the jet, but investigators still haven't been satisfied about why certain steps -- first and foremost the deployment of the wing spoilers -- apparently weren't performed. A mechanical postmortem may help them decide; the wrecked plane got the Flight 800 treatment on Tuesday and was moved to a hangar for autopsy. The plane...
...viewed in Redmond through that prism. When AOL bought Netscape, why didn't it change its default browser from Microsoft's to Netscape's? So as not to weaken the antitrust case, says Microsoft. "When the trial is over," predicts an exec, "they're going to switch...
...garnishes of high-flavor foods like bacon or ham bits, sun-dried tomatoes or orange slices. Think about what you're eating--people can often fill in the lost sensory information from memory. Chew thoroughly to enable more molecules to react with receptor sites in the mouth and nose. Switch from food to food, taking a bite of one, then another, to avoid becoming adapted, or inured, to a flavor...
...nuns and their carefully preserved brains have proved to be an Alzheimer's research treasure. From it, Snowdon has already found that tiny strokes may be the switch that flips a mildly deteriorating brain into full-fledged dementia and, bizarrely, that the density of ideas in the writings of a 20-year-old novice may be, for reasons nobody can fathom, a predictor of Alzheimer's at age 80. But in nine years of study, Snowdon has never been able to identify anything that might prevent the disease...