Rachel 's Profile

ETS        145         Reading Popular Culture (3)

LIN           201         The Nature and Study of Language (3)

WRT       114         Writing Culture (3)

GEO       272         World Cultures (3)

PSY        274         Social Psychology (3)

BIO          211         Introduction to Neuroscience (3)

EAR        111         Climate Change – an Impending Crisis? (3)

The board was expected to focus heavily on pilot training and fatigue.

about how much ice had formed on their wings.

he'd flown about 625 hours in the region before he was hired for this job by Manassas, Va.-based Colgan Air.

I really wouldn't mind going through a a winter in the Northeast before I have to upgrade to captain. ... I've never seen icing conditions. I've never deiced. I've never seen any. I've never experienced any of that. I don't want to have to experience that and make those kinds of calls. You know I'd have freaked out. I'd have like seen this much ice and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we were going to crash.'

The training instructor said Renslow struggled to learn the Dash 8's flight management system, a critical computer, and had difficulty learning switch positions which were opposite from the throws he had been used to on another aircraft. This instructor described the captain's decision-making abilities as very good.

still regarded by the law as children first and criminals second.

Where juvenile delinquency was once limited to truancy or vandalism, juveniles now are more likely to be the perpetrators of serious and deadly crimes such as arson, aggravated assault, rape and murder.

uvenile court judges do not issue findings of guilt, but decide whether a child is delinquent.

Detaining a rapist or murderer in a juvenile facility until the age of 18 or 21 isn't even a slap on the hand

Sound public policy dictates that serious, violent and habitual offenders need to be incarcerated to protect the public safety and provide appropriate levels of punishment and accountability.

This group was intent on denying direct popular election of the president and preserving the power of the states

2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to
operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable toy”.

“At best, we see the [economic] slowdown delaying the
fractures for maybe a year.”

The amount of traffic generated each month by YouTube is now equivalent to the
amount of traffic generated across the entire internet in all of 2000.

Ritter said that waves of
disruption would begin to emerge next year, when computers would jitter and
freeze.

brownouts” – a combination of temporary
freezing and computers being reduced to a slow speed.

Ritter’s report will warn that an unreliable internet is merely a toy.

but by 2012 that traffic jam could last all
day long.”

Telephone companies want to recoup escalating costs by increasing prices for
“net hogs” who use more than their share of capacity.

The president is
on track to to pull troops out of Iraq by 2011,

He is also pushing ahead with a decision to double the number of U.S. troops in
Afghanistan

deeper on Afghanistan
and he's increasing the defense budget that George Bush left on his doorstep,

"The left were promised some
sort of change and they're not getting it."

He said Obama's decision not to withdraw troops faster than the 2010 deadline established
by Iraq and the Bush administration was a wise one.

After North Korea launched a long-range rocket over Japan on April 4, the Obama administration pledged
to pursue hobbled six-party talks with Pyongyang and ushered new sanctions through the U.N. Security Council.

He points out that the overall budget seeks
$534 billion for fiscal year 2010 -- $10 billion more than Bush's blueprint.

He hasn't really done anything. The real tests are coming ahead."

were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical system and its controls

but officials warned they could try during a crisis or war.

"If we go to war with them, they will try to turn them on."

Officials said water, sewage and other infrastructure systems also were at risk.

Officials cautioned that the motivation of the cyberspies wasn't well understood, and they don't see an immediate danger.

The Obama administration is weighing whether to expand the program to address vulnerabilities in private computer networks, which would cost billions of dollars more. A senior Pentagon official said Tuesday the Pentagon has spent $100 million in the past six months repairing cyber damage.

Overseas examples show the potential havoc.

releasing more than 200,000 gallons of sewage into parks,

East, the West and Texas.