The more managers are free to admit an impending failure without fear of being throttled, the better off a government will be.

With our busy airports unable to cope with air travel demands, we'll be experiencing highway-like congestion in our airways.

Some states have a reputation for easy-to-fake IDs.

As a deputy sheriff worked an accident in the middle of a heavy rainstorm, water dripped from his sleeve onto the keyboard of the laptop computer that was mounted on the floor of his squad car. Corporal Tom Wood of the Marion County Sheriff's Department in Indiana says that later, when he used a blow-dryer in an attempt to minimize the damage, "eight of the keys melted."

As a deputy sheriff worked an accident in the middle of a heavy rainstorm, water dripped from his sleeve onto the keyboard of the laptop computer that was mounted on the floor of his squad car. Corporal Tom Wood of the Marion County Sheriff's Department in Indiana says that later, when he used a blow-dryer in an attempt to minimize the damage, "eight of the keys melted."