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THE MORNING ACCORDING TO US

By Chris Sprow

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Is there anything more farcical than the number of times the word "safety" is used when you get on, sit down and take part in a commercial flight? While air safety is an absurdly reliable foregone conclusion—the flight itself is "manned" almost entirely by computers, thousands of flights take off and land simultaneously daily around the world (this is cool) and the average fatality rate per person is in the 2,000,000,000 miles traveled range—we're given specific instructions on how ...

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