Just days after the terrorist attacks, three undercover deputies carried a pocket knife, box cutter and cutting tool in their clothing and purses through metal detectors and x-ray machines without being stopped. ... Another security measure under the scope right now is the possibility of arming pilots with guns. ... Sally Donnely, a writer for Time magazine, states in her article "Pilots Packing Heat" that "As confidence has waned in other efforts to enhance airline security, initial critics of cockpit guns are embracing them" (np). ... This security measure also involves both time and mone...

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The Apollo program was designed to make history; land a man on the moon for the first time. It was a race to the moon involving Americans and Russians. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him sa...

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They set out to try and figure out how best to save German pilots who were forced to eject at high altitude. ... Prisoners were immersed into tanks of ice water for hours at a time, often shivering to death, to discover how long German pilots downed by enemy fire could survive the frozen waters. ... He would run daily blood and x-ray tests on every set of twins he had. ...

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The suit was very successful and would be used in years to come to prevent blackout of pilots subjected to high gravity forces. ... On May 15, 1929, X-ray films which had been stored in a basement room of the Clinic building suddenly spontaneously combusted, sending toxic fumes throughout the building. ...

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The suit was very successful and would be used in years to come to prevent blackout of pilots subjected to high gravity forces. ... On May 15, 1929, X-ray films which had been stored in a basement room of the Clinic building suddenly spontaneously combusted, sending toxic fumes throughout the building. ...

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I. Introduction Defining the Process Within the airline travel industry, a common process that a majority of passengers encounter is the luggage claim process at the beginning and end of their trip. Most people are familiar with a check-in at the ticket counter, the handing over of luggage, and a final pickup when it's over. As a team we decided to choose an event that is familiar to all persons, such as the luggage claim business process, yet complex in its entirety. Our team will evaluate this process within the American Airlines organization located at the Miami International Ai...

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IBM was created as IBM by T. J. Watson, Sr. from a small company, the Computing and Tabulating Company, which he happened to lead near the beginning of this century. Watson Sr. built the company into a leader of office equipment, which at the time consisted largely of time clocks and eventually punch card equipment. Watson is credited for revolutionizing industrial employment practices by instituting at IBM "continuous employment" for life of all employees. ...

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2000: Conductive polymers Contents Prize motivation 1 Conductive polymers - a surprising discovery 1 What is electrical conductivity? 2 What makes a material conductive? 3 Conductive polymers - the story 4 Applications of conductive polymers 5 Synthesis and processing 6 Mechanism of polymer conductivity - role of doping 6 Molecular electron-transfer theory 11 Electroluminescent polymers - second-generation conductive polymers 13 From silicon physics to molecular electronics 14 References and further reading 15 Prize motivation The Royal Swedish A...

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