Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits & Outrages OF COURSE WE'LL HAVE TO FRISK THEM FOR CLEARASIL The New York Times reports that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is considering trying to keep teenagers from...
...This startled the first officer, who then pushed into the control column...
...HELLO FOLKS, I'M RUBE GOLDBERG AND I'LL BE YOUR CAPTAIN ON TODAY'S FLIGHT" According to the National Transportation Safety Board and American Airlines, an incident in which an American flight accidentally went into a steep dive, injuring 17 passengers, was caused this way: To make room for a box of soft drinks, coffee, and water brought into the cockpit by a flight attendant, a reserve crew member at the time flying in the captain's seat moved the first officer's seat forward...
...IN A RELATED DEVELOPMENT, THE BASEBALL PLAYERS UNION ANNOUNCED THAT FROM NOW ON, ITS AVERAGE SALARY FIGURES WILL INCLUDE LITTLE LEAGUERS So that "the physician looks less like he's gouging America," the American Medical Association has announced that its future calculations of doctors' median income will no longer just cover physicians in private practice but will also include the incomes of doctors in training and those employed by the government...
...Scott Shuger...
...Tidbits & Outrages OF COURSE WE'LL HAVE TO FRISK THEM FOR CLEARASIL The New York Times reports that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is considering trying to keep teenagers from repeatedly cruising main streets in cars by using low-pressure sodium street lighting because, in the words of a department researcher, "It makes their acne stand out...
...THANK GOD NOBODY TRIED TO BRING THEM A BOX OF SOFT DRINKS, COFFEE, AND WATER Two Delta ground employees were dismissed and arrested after taking an empty Boeing 737 on a mile-long run around a Tucson airport taxiway at 3 a.m...
...The movement of the control column turned off the plane's autopilot, which sent the plane into a nosedive...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 10
