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...professor Derrick Bell about making a movie version of a short story in Bell's book Faces at the Bottom of the Well. Bell's story is a sharp commentary on the way the legal system mistreats minorities. The plot: aliens buy all the blacks in America and transport them into outer space. Bell, who lost his job at Harvard Law School after taking an extended leave to protest the lack of minority women on the faculty, is also working on a TV project for PBS that deals with the Declaration of Independence...
...transport planes of the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility Command -- used to ship supplies and personnel to Bosnia and Somalia -- have been working almost nonstop since the Persian Gulf War, and now some of the giant C-141s and C-5s are showing worrisome wing cracks and other signs of fatigue. The Air Force is still struggling to catch up on maintenance that had been scheduled two years < ago but was interrupted by the Kuwait crisis. Said one C-141 pilot: "If we were a union, there's no way this carrier could continue flying...
...summary said radioactive Phosphorus-32 dripped onto the floor in the Medical School's Building D on January 13 from a cart used to transport radioactive waste away from the laboratories. While the spill was not detected for two hours, "no radioactive material was found on individuals, except for trace amounts on the bottom of the shoes of a few employees," the summary said...
...electronic mail memo dated April 1--nine days after OSHA informed UHS of the allegations--indicates that fundamental changes were recently made in the packaging of specimens. In the memo, Laboratory Manager Barbara Skane said UHS would transport specimens in clear biohazard bags and fluid-resistant containers instead of the paper bags used previously...
...current employee last week confirmed the former worker's descriptions of paper bags used to transport specimens...