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...remember walking onto the plane and seeing a fellow with gray hair in the cockpit and thinking, "That's a good thing... I like to see gray hair in the cockpit...
...Next thing we heard was "Brace for impact!" - a phrase I had heard many years before as an active duty Marine officer but never before on a commercial air flight. Everyone looked at each other in shock. It all happened so fast we were astonished...
...could not stop shaking. Uncontrollable shaking. The only thing I had with me was my Blackberry, which had gotten wet and was not working. (It started working again a few hours later...
...first thing that comes to mind is, 'O.K., he's going to tell us what time we need to have our things packed,' " says senior Anya Dixon, 28, a music industry major. Luckily, the news was better than expected: Pritchett detailed an emergency backup plan, explaining that if the water stopped flowing, the school would suspend classes and arrange alternative housing and food services. But it would not close altogether. "A lot of people were relieved to know there was still hope," says Dixon, adding that because the school's tuition is just $7,000 - far below the average...
...severe economic downturn, he says, "it's going to be essential to have a strong cost-benefit analysis in support of any regulation as a way of selling it to the American public. If I were a President who wanted to have a strong environmental agenda, the last thing I would do is say, "We're not going to look at the costs of these regulations; we're just going to do them...