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...Australian carrier has had no fatal accidents and only three previous "major safety events." But that record ensures that even small incidents make headlines. Since 2006 there have been a growing list of such relatively minor mishaps: burst tires, a burning engine, a fallen engine panel, an aborted takeoff, a forced switch to battery power as a plane landed. The July 25 incident was far more serious. It was "a tremendously bad one," said Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon, "and it's one we regret...
...dancer, she looks like a Mother Teresa to the emotionally homeless. The fascinating thing about Madonna is that she is all-real and all-fake -- in other words, pure show biz. Girlie Show -- at once a movie retrospective, a Ziegfeld revue, a living video and an R-rated takeoff on Cirque du Soleil -- opens with Smokey Robinson's Tears of a Clown and closes with Cole Porter's Be a Clown. Pierrot is your silent host; the calliope music announces that this is a three-ring circus of clowning around. And Madonna, once the Harlow harlot and now a perky...
...product of luck. We can do far more than we think to improve our odds of preventing and surviving even the most horrendous of catastrophes. It's a matter of preparation - bolting down your water heater before an earthquake or actually reading the in-flight safety card before takeoff - but also of mental conditioning. Each of us has what I call a "disaster personality," a state of being that takes over in a crisis. It is at the core of who we are. The fact is, we can refine that personality and teach our brains to work more quickly, maybe...
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who came to Baghdad on Saturday with a congressional delegation, set off a now-familiar cycle of reaction in the Iraqi capital. First there was buzz around the city about flight delays from Baghdad International Airport, which goes into lockdown when VIPs land or takeoff. Since no dust storms were grounding flights, anyone traveling could have assumed some American bigwig was heading in. But when local TV reported the visitor was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, there was a collective shrug of the kind you might expect from Republicans catching a glimpse of her somewhere in McCain...
...definitely a good experience; she jumped really well. She won by being very consistent and by doing what she does best.”Thomas adds that Christensen’s progress this season is something that helped her win on Friday. “Her consistency, her takeoff and her approach has become something very easy and very smooth,” Thomas said.Christensen believes that her success hangs on her ability to be calm and relaxed during a meet, qualities that captain Sally Stanton believes she possesses. “[Christensen] never has a bad performance; some days...