Wednesday, June 24, 2009
“I’m not sure if everyone in the safety system is paying the proper attention that needs to be paid.”
Barry Sweedler
A safety consultant and former investigator and manager at the NTSB, after a Washington, D.C., Metro transit train smashed into the rear of another, killing at least nine people.
“It is very uncommon to discover a fossil like this in a tropical region like Indonesia. It apparently was covered by volcanic sediment that protected it from ... erosion and decay.”
Edi Sunardi
An independent expert at Indonesia’s Pajajaran University, on the reconstruction of the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant found in the tropics.