UNNORMALIZE DEVIATIONS

Your trenchant editorial "NASA Can Do It--Again" (AW&ST Sept. 1, p. 66) highlighted sociologist Diane Vaughan's identification of the cultural catalyst for the Challenger disaster: "Deviance had become normalized." The same phenomenon occurred with Concorde's "tire failures and debris strikes" and...

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