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Keeping General Aviation Safe and Secure
When an intoxicated young man opened an unlocked hangar at a Danbury, Conn. airport in the middle of the night last summer, found the keys dangling from the ignition in a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, and took the plane on an aerial joyride that ended three hours later more DOING WHAT MATTERS It took an interview with the Big Man himself before Joe Linn finally said yes to Microsoft. The company had been trying to hire him and his wife, Cathy Jo Linn, for years, but they always found a reason to decline. They said no in Dallas, where they had joined the faculty at Southern Methodist University after receiving their PhDs in computer science from Vanderbilt in 1980. They said no five years later in Virginia more Engineers Build Microscopic Labs For Cells Picture yourself taking a needle and extracting immunity-protecting T-cells from your own body. Next imagine depositing them for a brief stay in a little cell spa, where toxins are waiting to give them a real workout. Now imagine injecting those boosted cells back into your body, where they can turn the tide in your personal battle against disease. You’ve just glimpsed the future of immunology. more Toy Story All Sean Frawley and a friend in high school wanted to do was design cool toy airplanes with flapping wings and then sell them. They were doing just fine until Popular Science magazine found out about their little enterprise and did a story on them in its June 2002 issue. By then, Frawley was an aerospace engineering student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was there to learn the physics, mathematics, and materials science more Helping the Libyan with a copy of his death sentence Immigration Lawyer Vicky Farah Vicky Farah still vividly remembers her first cases as an immigration lawyer. There was the Yemeni girl caught between two countries. The Jamaican woman with the wrong age and too many names. And the Libyan with a copy of his death sentence. She won each case, but only after going head-to-head with top officials in the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the State Department and setting precedents along the way. more Al Hinton's Hands Al Hinton is slowly rubbing his hands together, as if to loosen a persistent ache in the knot-sized knuckles. Hands that in the mid-1960s threw 250-pound men to the ground on football fields across the U.S. and Canada. Today, they throw bright flashes of paint onto stretched canvas. more One of the people he plans to have a word with is the late Bishop Gallagher of Detroit, who, shortly after Irvin was born in 1933, confused his personal opinion with Church teaching and declared it a mortal sin for Catholic parents not to send their children to Catholic schools. Irvin's mother and father risked the eternal flames anyway and sent him to Angell School. "Since Bishop Gallagher is now dead, he knows what is a mortal sin and what is not," Irvin says, smiling. more "You stick mail through the slot in somebody's door, hear a loud GRRRRRR! and the envelope is jerked from your hand," she recalls with a shudder. "You just hope it wasn't somebody's tax refund or one of those 'do not fold, spindle, or mutilate' forms." more |
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