It’s a tough job …
Published 12:01 am Saturday, April 24, 2010
…. But someone has to do it: Boeing has flown one of its 787 Dreamliner test jets to a special hangar at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where it will be exposed to simulated weather conditions and temperature extremes between minus 45 and 115 degrees.
About 100 Boeing employees are also in Florida, where they are being exposed to mostly sunny weather conditions and temperature extremes between 61 and 79 degrees.
Try “hard currency”: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s inspector general says 33 probes of senior staffers, those most responsible for ferreting out the fraud that contributed to the recession, found they were surfing porn sites on the Internet while at work.
In their defense, staffers said they were looking for fraud by using Internet searches for “assets,” “swaps” and “Fannie Mae.”
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1896, the Vitascope system of projecting motion pictures onto a screen was demonstrated in New York City.
It was only a year later that theater owners perfected techniques to ensure the movie-going public would be able to enjoy sticky floors, crying infants in Dolby Surround Sound and seating that either reclined too far or not at all.
