ACROSS 1. Human factor tool pilots use to state their schedule and expected routes to avoid errors (two words) 8. Beginning of American naval vessels 11. African country 12. Be sick 13. Odd 15. Wife of a...

Ergonomics, sometimes referred to as human factors engineering, was first defined in 1857 by Wojciech Jasrzboski, a Polish scholar, philosopher and naturalist. Ergonomics is the appropriate assignment and interface of functions for humans, machines and environments. Concern about ergonomics exploded after World War...

Risky decisions, failure to fully plan an escape and pressure to ignore hazards may have led to the deaths of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters last year, according to the findings of an investigation released Tuesday."The human elements are critical factors in the evaluation of...

Forced into a catch-up mode after a rocky campaign, Austria went on the offensive Sunday in the final days before the vote on the host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics.Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, the first of three heads of government to come to Guatemala...

In the following essay, Storhoff examines Greene's portrayal of the conflicting interests of political action, personal morality, and institutional order in The Human Factor. "For Greene," writes Storhoff, "religion should not take one out of the political world; instead, it should provide one with a coherent moral vision and profound scope that the secular world cannot offer."