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...British-built Slingsby T-3A Firefly was selected in 1992 to replace the T-41 aircraft. It was a more demanding plane, designed to weed out poor pilots. But after the three fatal crashes, the service grounded the planes in 1997. "The T-41 is your grandmother's airplane," Merrill McPeak, the general running the Air Force when the program began, told TIME several months later. "Our mission is to train warrior-pilots, not dentists to fly their families to Acapulco." But the Air Force disagreed, and ultimately ended the more demanding flight-training program that General McPeak had championed...
...Still, the police may have little choice in their efforts to weed out a growing number of terror suspects who have emerged from within law-abiding British Muslim communities. "These third generation terrorists may receive their motivation and stimulation from Al Qaeda but, on the operative level, they act independently," says Rolf Tophoven, head of the Essen-based Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy and Germany's leading expert on international terrorism. "They have been radicalized and turned to a kind of perverted Islam." Since homegrown terrorist groups "have metastasized in many places around the world," he says, "identifying...
...girl’s profile showed messages from her friends that “contain some profanity,” according to the report. The report further says that the other girl’s profile “states that her interests include music, theater and weed (Marijuana...
...credibility or predictive value, as Annie Murphy Paul showed in her 2004 book, Cult of Personality. You can have one Myers-Briggs personality on Tuesday and another when you retake the test on Thursday. Their chief function, as far as I could tell when I took them, was to weed out the introverts. When asked whether you'd rather be the life of the party or curl up with a book, the correct answer is always "Party...
...high bar we set, and it should be," said Naperville Superintendent Alan Leis. "But there needs to be more than wrestling over who's better than who." Class rankings, a tradition at many schools, have long helped universities and colleges - especially the Harvards and Princetons of the world - weed out the weak students from the strong, the ones with not only promise but the ambition to excel and meet the rigors of higher education...