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...question of whether the crash was avoidable. Alaska Airlines has a remarkable safety record, despite landing in some of the most hazardous conditions in the world. This was its first major accident in decades. But it is also facing possible fines for alleged maintenance violations, and it is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation. The crash comes at a time when federal officials have been getting tougher with airlines over alleged safety lapses--and becoming more willing to bring criminal charges. As investigators look into the causes of the crash, the stakes for Alaska Airlines could...
...Flight 261 disaster aggravates questions that have been directed at Alaska Airlines. It is the subject of a federal investigation into alleged falsification of maintenance records in its Oakland, Calif., facility. The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed fining the airline $44,000 and revoking certification of several mechanics...
This small urban mystery strikes the opening chord of E.L. Doctorow's dazzling, polyphonic new novel City of God (Random House; 320 pages; $25). But detective work, at least of the sort usually portrayed in fiction, is not really Doctorow's subject. He aims at a much broader and more elusive quarry: the nature of--and the impediments to--religious faith at the end of the technologically advanced and barbarously blood-soaked 20th century...
There is no one-size-fits-all set of guidelines for knowing when you need a second opinion or how you should go about getting one. But the best primer I've seen on the subject is a new book called Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine by Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School (Viking, $24.95), due in bookstores this month. Second Opinions is not so much a how-to guide as an insider's view of how doctors and patients determine--often with limited facts--the best course of treatment. "Dealing...
...title, as in "best seller." Thomson's sixth novel, The Book of Revelation (Knopf; 260 pages; $23), ought to widen considerably the circle of his readership on both sides of the Atlantic. His new book, like its predecessors, conveys bizarre, surrealistic events with understated, laconic precision, but the principal subject this time out is that fail-safe crowd pleaser, kinky...