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...sounding really venomous about it. These are people you're going to want to work with in your future, especially if you work in a very tight industry or a region like the Bay Area, where people know each other for years and years. They just cycle through the various companies. You're going to see these people again. So the last thing you want is a reputation for being vicious. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Do If You Get Laid Off | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

Just a day before the Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 crash-landed in light fog, killing at least nine of the 134 passengers on board, a congressional committee in Washington heard testimony from industry experts on the ways in which various regulatory steps and changes to aircraft have greatly improved passenger survivability in airplane crashes. In testimony to members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Candace Kolander, air-safety coordinator for the Association of Flight Attendants, a flight-attendant union that has long pushed for improvements to onboard safety, listed three main successes that are proving to save lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving Crashes: How Airlines Prepare for the Worst | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...USAir Flight 1493 crashed into another aircraft while landing at Los Angeles International Airport. After surviving the impact, 20 passengers and two crew members died as a result of smoke inhalation as they waited to leave at the overwing exit. During the 1980s, the FAA instituted various measures that demanded aircrafts upgrade the flammability standards of materials on board. The USAir aircraft was built before the effective date of those requirements and had not yet been modernized. All aircraft in the U.S. are now compliant. The requirements were strengthened in 1991, when the FAA required all large transport planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving Crashes: How Airlines Prepare for the Worst | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...tagline De Lesseps speaks in the opening credits of RHNYC is, appropriately, "I never feel guilty about being privileged." That could be the motto of Bravo, a cable powerhouse whose reality shows follow the pampered class and their various stylists, party planners and other modern-day valets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Diggers of 2009 | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...Even without the home advantage working in its favor, Harvard appears in prime position to challenge many of the top teams in various events...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Host Heptagonals | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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