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...occurrence of such incidents has grown: up 71% since 1993. The Federal Aviation Administration says last year there were 322 so-called runway incursions--incidents that present an on-the-ground collision hazard. A joint industry-government commission to study aviation safety, which used broader guidelines, put the annual number at closer...
...best solutions may be the big-ticket improvements that have proved most elusive. The FAA continues to support a sophisticated ground-radar system that is $30 million over budget and years late. Closing poorly designed airports and restricting the number of flights per hour would probably prove effective--and expensive. It comes down, says Air Safety Week editor David Evans, to "the classic tension between economics and safety." In this trade-off, there's a lot to be said for safety. Just ask Bob and Elizabeth Dole...
...beat Rodney King--to examine two of Pepper's more checkable allegations: former Memphis bar owner Loyd Jowers' claim that he set up the shooting and ex-FBI agent Donald Wilson's claim that he found a scrap of paper in Ray's getaway car with the phone number of a Dallas nightclub once owned by Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...closer than the oligarchs might have liked, but Vladimir Putin looks ready to take the "acting" part of his title and take over as the next president of Russia. With more than 80 percent of the vote counted, the tally shows Putin with 51.5 percent. A distant number two is the 1996 also-ran, Communist Gennady Zyuganov. The race was surprisingly close, considering polls showed Putin with 50 percent of the vote last week, and considering he was virtually the official candidate of the Russian government. Putin's support was soft in the Russian Far East, where Communists such...
Maybe we should have seen it coming: Viagra, credited with the reinvigoration of the male sex drive, has now been linked to a number of pregnancies in previously infertile women. A little pill appears to give everyone what they want: Men get their mojo back, while some infertile women may get the pregnancies they desire. In Las Vegas, four patients whose uterine linings were considered too thin to support a fertilized egg were given Viagra in hopes of increasing blood flow to the problem areas - in the same way the drug delivers a surge of blood...