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"Then, the night before the first air traffic controller strike in U.S. history, Rose recalled how he "argued with the president of the union on [the television show] Nightline." The air traffic controller crisis wasn't about Cortisol levels, high blood pressure, and a shorter work week. "I said to him," Rose recalled:" 'Bob, you and I both know that the real issue for the controllers is their perception that no one gives a damn, and no one really cares—that they are not being supported." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Professional air traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) went on strike for the first time in its history, on the grounds that its controllers were being subjected to intolerable levels of stress. Researchers hired by the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate this had failed to find standard biochemical and behavioral indicators of stress, however, and Ronald Reagan, newly elected to the presidency, ended up firing all 11,359 of the striking workers." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Guiding us through the intense commercial air traffic of Newark Airport and in constant communication with air traffic controllers, Trooper Mitchell takes us down in elevation over Bayonne. Not by accident is HOMELAND SECURITY emblazoned in big bold letters along the fuselage of this Sikorsky. Trooper Mitchell said that on the outside of the Sikorsky is a million-dollar camera that can send imagery back to command headquarters in real time, as well as at night with infrared nighttime vision equipment with 1 million candlepower. "This is called making your presence known," Serrao said." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The air traffic controller crisis wasn't about Cortisol levels, high blood pressure, and a shorter work week. "I said to him," Rose recalled:" 'Bob, you and I both know that the real issue for the controllers is their perception that no one gives a damn, and no one really cares—that they are not being supported.' " It was a bombshell of a reproach—not only to the union managers, but to the entire premise of all the work Rose had done attempting to clarify what was wrong with these men." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"If three jetliners crashed every single day of the year, how long do you think it would take the American public to demand an investigation of pilots, plane manufacturers, air traffic controllers, and any other influences that might be causing such tragedies? That many diabetics die each day, yet no one questions the drugs, the doctors, the hospitals, the pharmaceuticals, the pharmacists, or the government. Adverse Drug Events Somewhere in these mortality numbers is lost the fact that human insulin is the 8th most reported adverse drug." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"A strategy was developed for sorting this situation out, and determining how bad things really were: the amount of "stress" would be quantified (e.g., by counting the numbers of planes controllers had to manage at any one time); and these quantified levels of stress would then be related to quantified measures of malfunctioning (e.g., depression) and maladaptive physiology (e.g., heightened Cortisol levels). As tensions between the FAA, the unions, and the workers increased, however, things began to go wrong." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Many other lines of work, from computer programming to air traffic control, demand the same negative vigilance. People prone to depression often have a certain negative vigilance. What makes many of them likable to me is that they often see the components of increasing dehumanization in our society and culture better than so-called normals. While depressed people can look at the twentieth century and see more violent death from war and genocide than in all other centuries combined, the nondepressed are more likely to look at it and rejoice in its new technology." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Organized labor suffered an unprecedented loss of power following Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,800 striking air traffic controllers in 1981. The administration's action, the resulting breakup of the Professional air traffic Controllers Organization union, and rulings by conservative judges at the time giving companies most of Leaving Sioux Falls was different. Usually I left like a commando after a raid, getting out fast and quietly with my tapes and photos before anything hit the fan. This time I was leaving friends behind. We had a farewell dinner together, and I promised to stay in touch." - Gail A. Eisnitz, Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meal Industry (Get the book.)

"The potential uses of Rhodiola rosea, either alone or in a formula with other adaptogens, are as plentiful as high-stress jobs. air traffic controllers, pilots, military defense monitors, submarine crews, heavy equipment operators, policemen, firemen, doctors and nurses, emergency medical technicians, even everyday highway commuters must endure long hours of tiring work punctuated by unpredictable crises that require split-second decisions. Alertness, attention, and a well-tuned stress response system can mean the difference between life and death." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Specific Studies Night Vision: Clinical Study (1966) Bilberry extract improved night vision and adaptation to darkness after exposure to glare in this open trial of 14 air traffic controllers. air traffic controllers spend hours in a darkened room staring at radar screens and watching traffic on the runways and in the air. Their work is visually challenging, requiring their eyes to adapt quickly to darkness after exposure to bright lights." - Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien, The Encyclopedia of Popular Herbs (Get the book.)

"Hormones are the air traffic controllers determining the fate of whatever flies in. If your food is stimulating the wrong hormones or creating a hormonally unbalanced state, you will find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to lose weight and keep it off. In this chapter you will learn why it is so vitally important to balance your hormones if you want to lose weight. It is probably as important or more important than counting calories, and it is certainly more important than reducing dietary fat. But managing our hormones has even bigger consequences." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"It is no coincidence, then, that one of the highest burnout ratios is found among air traffic controllers, a profession of mostly males who work under conditions in which anything short of constant perfection could amount to loss of life. So great is the pressure they're under not to make mistakes that by the time they reach their mid-forties, many of these guys have had to leave their jobs, says Dr. Jenkins, who participated in a definitive study of air traffic controllers and burnout. " - Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine, Age Erasers for Men: Hundreds of Fast and Easy Ways to Beat the Years (Get the book.)

"Still, aerocars must be controlled, and the world air traffic system has undergone a revolution to cope with them.5 The guidance system industry has exploded to accommodate millions of pilotless craft on a worldwide grid. Many of those guidance systems companies are based in Saint Thomas. Hundreds of air traffic controllers were happy to move there from the frigid north. They're no longer tied to one location, because broadband lets them "be" in the control tower of every airport on earth. They work from whatever location they want, as long as it has broadband." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"President), letter to Robert Poli (President of the air traffic Controllers Union), October 20, 1980 A few months after Reagan took office, the air traffic Controllers Union called a strike against the federal government. Reagan dismissed the striking controllers and hired new ones to take their place, effectively breaking Poli's union. Deregulation, How to Respond to "[I]n his aggressive response to deregulation [Chairman of the Board Harding Lawrence]... has made another brilliant, strategic move that should put Braniff in splendid shape for the 80s." - Christopher Cerf and Victor S. Navasky, The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Get the book.)

"One of the first acts of the Reagan administration was to dismiss from their jobs, en masse, striking air traffic controllers. It was a warning to future strikers, and a sign of the weakness of a labor movement which in the thirties and forties had been a powerful force. Corporate America became the greatest beneficiary of the Reagan-Bush years. In the sixties and seventies an important environmental movement had grown in the nation, horrified at the poisoning of the air, the seas and rivers, and the deaths of thousands each year as a result of work conditions." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"In particular, it improves the focus and attention in persons whose duties require great concentration (such as air traffic controllers, pilots). Leuzea extract prevents stress-induced sleep disorders and does not evoke any unpleasant sensations, such as psycho-emotional retardation, sluggishness, apathy and headaches, which were observed following the intake of sleeping pills. The extract has a positive influence on the initial stages asthenia and sexual malfunction. It also slightly decreases the sugar content in the blood during the initial stage of diabetes mellitus." - Anatoly Antoshechkin, Adaptogens and Health Care (Get the book.)

"Specific Studies Night Vision: Clinical Study (1966) Bilberry extract improved night vision and adaptation to darkness after exposure to glare in this open trial of 14 air traffic controllers. air traffic controllers spend hours in a darkened room staring at radar screens and watching traffic on the runways and in the air. Their work is visually challenging, requiring their eyes to adapt quickly to darkness after exposure to bright lights." - Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien, The Encyclopedia of Popular Herbs (Get the book.)

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