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Since then, the FAA has launched high-speed "safety audits" of the country's nine largest airlines. Critics, including the airlines, pilots and outside safety experts, are furious, charging that the process was flawed from the start, hastily done and staffed by inexperienced personnel. "For those passengers who wonder if the Federal Government is doing all it can to make flying safer, this safety-audit process represents exactly the wrong way to go," says Jim McKenna, the former safety writer for Aviation Week and now executive director of the Aviation Safety Alliance, an industry group set up to improve public...
Should we give a spot to Susan? That's the question before a roomful of admissions officers at Mount Holyoke College. Susan, who has top grades and gushing recommendations, could surely prosper here. But what more, they wonder, would she bring to this cozy all-women's college in South Hadley, Mass.? Giulietta Aquino, Susan's advocate on the six-member committee, ticks off a few of her accomplishments. She is a decorated horseback rider aiming for the Olympics who commutes three hours a day between her home, school and horse barn but still finds time to tutor immigrant children...
...must wonder whether either film will achieve Minahan's stated goal of making the audience "look at television, re-examine their desire to watch and what they watch." It may be that some of the audience, applying irony to reality shows and their own guilty pleasure in watching them, is more like Minahan the devoted viewer than Minahan the earnestly questioning filmmaker. These edgy films at least remind us that our sleazy, cheesy pop culture relies on our complicity, our indolence and passivity, to do its deadening work...
LICENSED TO THRILL A core group of familiar characters is skipping from one entertainment platform to another--TV, video and the big screen. Here Comes Clifford (Artisan Entertainment), featuring the big red dog, is great for kids starting to appreciate narrative. Arthur Goes to Hollywood (Sony Wonder), which skewers celebrity, is a wonderful re-creation of the way kids speak and interact...
TEATIME No wonder researchers had great hopes for green tea. It's loaded with powerful anticancer agents like polyphenols, which, in the lab at least, inhibit cell proliferation. Well, time to reread those tea leaves. A study shows that folks who drink five or more cups of green tea a day are just as likely to develop stomach cancer as those who barely take a sip. Don't toss out the teapot, however. Green tea may still protect against other cancers...