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...year's series of wide-body crashes, though seemingly unrelated in their causes, nonetheless raised once again the question of how many people should be packed into a single aircraft. No matter how safe the plane or how economically efficient the ever increasing payload, any accident involving a huge plane becomes potentially catastrophic in loss of life. Boeing has orders for the 747-300, a model configured to handle 600 passengers. Asked if that seemed wise, Jerome Lederer, founder of America's Flight Safety Foundation, said that evacuation of so many people in the event of trouble would be difficult...
Roller coasters are supposed to scare you, make you scream and maybe leave your stomach 300 ft. up in the air. But when you hop onto one, you should feel as safe as if you were climbing onto a city bus. That is the import of a decision last week by California's Supreme Court, which toughened safety standards for amusement-park rides by ruling that they should abide by the same standard applied to modes of transportation like buses and airplanes...
...forces in Iraq. French intelligence officials say around 55 Islamist radicals - including some who were recruiting fighters for Iraq - have been arrested in France during the first five months of the year, versus 76 for all of 2004. Do more arrests mean Europe is more or less safe? A French counterterror official says recruitment in Europe of fighters for Iraq has "gone from a trickle to become quite significant." But that additional activity has left clandestine networks more vulnerable to detection by police. "The public understandably gets scared seeing more Islamist extremists arrested in their midst," he remarks. "But those...
Just when you thought it was safe to rent a DVD, what pops its snout up? Jaws, back again, in a spiffed-up digital package. But before and after the toothy one terrorized beach swimmers, sea monsters cued the aquaphobia of many a movie fan. Here's a scary half-dozen...
...used to be able to go to China to forage for extra food or, like Kang, to make a little money. But after Pyongyang ordered a crackdown on border jumpers earlier this year, few people dare to attempt the crossing. "Everybody's scared," Kang said by phone from a safe house near the border. "Things are much more difficult...