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...What we’ve done is we’re sending around to the city councillors the same background factual material that we sent to the media,” said Travis McCready, director of community affairs, just before the meeting...
...nation's lax, inadequate airline-safety net, one they say has broken down in every aspect: policy, personnel, technology and oversight from the Federal Aviation Administration and Congress. After years of foot dragging, only recently has the FAA started to put stronger rules into effect, requiring more stringent employee background checks and training as well as mandating that all checked baggage be scanned by sophisticated bomb-screening devices--by 2014. Two weeks before the tragedy, a veteran pilot told TIME: "It's absurd to think we're safe...
...past year, the agency, and not just the airlines, has gained certification authority over private security contractors, which, theoretically at least, should help weed out the worst performers. The FAA's new background-check guidelines may also help, but as usual, they are filled with loopholes. All security workers who started before Dec. 23, 2000, are grandfathered and don't have to be checked against a database for criminal records...
...hand over information about subscriber e-mails. If the Federal Government were to monitor more e-mails, a key question would be whether it would hold on to them for some time or dispose of them almost at once, as it now does with the information obtained from instant background checks mandated by federal law for gun purchases. Americans may be willing to let their e-mails pass one time through a sort of national filter that would screen for hints of terrorist activity. They will be far more reluctant to allow the government to collect a national e-mail...
Mental health counselors have spent the past two weeks in the background role of supporting Harvard’s leadership, helping faculty and employees recognize what normal reactions to abnormal events are, and spotting potential problems...