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Sturdier Seats Congress's Airport and Airway Safety Act of 1987 called for regulators to improve what is called the "crash-worthiness standard" of seats - in effect, the likelihood that they will crumple and crush passengers at impact. It took 17 years to accomplish the task, as the Federal Aviation Administration tussled with aircraft manufacturers and airlines that balked at paying for the upgraded seats. The FAA produced evidence that sturdier seats could have prevented 45 fatalities between 1984 and 1998. A deal was reached. In 2005, the FAA mandated that all U.S. aircraft built after October 2009 meet...
...Trans Task Force...
Sponsored by the Trans Task Force, the Harvard College Women's Center...
...meeting with the Harvard Allston Task Force on Monday night, Allston residents erupted in anger and frustration over the university’s ambiguous plans regarding Allston development progression. In particular, residents expressed concern over Harvard’s continued acquisition of property while it has simultaneously enacted plans to slow the building of the new science complex. Residents are worried that a slowing pace of construction in Allston will mean leaving these purchased properties vacant—preventing other businesses from entering the area. The university has already slowed its purchase of raw materials intended for use in later...
...tables of the seven-year-old Jamaica Plain location for twenty. The menu, with its European-inspired cuisine, has similarly grown from five entrees to seven, and the wine list has doubled in length. Partly to save money, partly because they did not realize the enormity of the task, Kranyak, along with her chef and sous-chef, renovated the new Cambridge space themselves. Kranyak said the former occupant’s seven year legacy included a lot of “wear and tear.” “For seven days a week, twelve hours...