Word: reportable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Recently, NASA released a report claiming the robotic arm on its Mars Polar Lander was a success. Last week F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., chairman of the House Committee on Science, ridiculed the report, pointing out that the whole contraption crashed on the red planet before the robotic arm was ever deployed. Was NASA trying to pull a fast...
...Technically, no. Long before the crash, NASA chose specific projects to include in its annual report. As luck would have it, the only part of the lander mission they chose to rate was the robotic arm, and when they tested it on earth, it worked like a charm. If you lost a $165 million lander because of a missing line of computer code, wouldn't you try to accentuate the positive...
...other, even more unsettling possibility is that the police simply don't take sex crimes very seriously - a postulation backed by many activists, who report trying to introduce sex crime education into the NYPD curriculum for years. All those unsuccessful attempts have left the city's victim advocates frustrated, and more than a little bit apprehensive about the current force, who have never been trained to deal with sex crimes, and who don't even track sexual assault as a "real" crime...
...well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. How does one explain, for example, the three-week delay between the initial discovery that hard drives containing top-secret information had been taken from the Chris Carter-esque "X Division" of the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory and any report to Washington...
Maybe this will teach us to keep our seat belts securely fastened until our plane has stopped at the gate. Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a generally surly report citing the rising risk of on-the-ground collisions between airplanes and other vehicles, and pointing an accusatory finger at the Federal Aviation Administration. Apparently, we don't need to worry about air safety so much - we'd be better off concentrating on getting from the runway to baggage check in one piece. There are too many planes and attendant service vehicles on the ground at any given time...