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Many airline pilots these days are more like office workers than Chuck Yeager. Today's highly computerized flight decks mean that pilots spend a lot of their time typing data into their flight-management systems rather than sharpening their stick-and-rudder skills. "Some pilots can get into situations that are so unnatural and frightening that they freeze," says Terry McVenes, deputy chairman of the pilots' union's safety committee. "For example, when the plane goes nose down, it takes a lot of physical strength--and absorbing about 3 Gs--to pull the plane out. If a pilot tries...
...sales aren't siphoned into star salaries. And the show is peddling CDs, T shirts and geegaws galore. At Bloomingdale's, in its 59th Street store and other locations, you will find "Hairspray" boutiques festooned with period clothes, some for full-figured gals. In a Village Voice column, Lynn Yeager noted that there was, "for the first time in memory, a plump mannequin in the window of Bloomie's, with falsies as prominent as Harvey Fierstein...
...good. It stands for justice and freedom. Those ideals cannot be destroyed by any man, power or principality. America had no choice but to rise up and destroy the malicious and illegitimate power of the Taliban. The sort of hatred practiced by bin Laden will be eliminated. M. SMITH-YEAGER Marietta...
...WEST VIRGINIA: Chemical plant security heightened. Flights out of Charleston's Yeager Airport, West Virginia's largest, suspended...
...civil complaint, Dees argues that Butler owes the Keenans damages, basically for the terror of it all. By arming the men, Butler was negligent, he says, because one of them--Warfield--had previously been charged with assault, while another, John Yeager, was thought to be emotionally unstable. Both men, among six defendants in the suit, are in prison, convicted of aggravated assault, while a third remains at large. Because none have any assets of note, Dees wants to seize Butler's property as a civil punishment...