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...problem manageable. It's the second half of the FAA's strategy that's revolutionary and has airline managers quaking. It's called 'demand management.' For English speakers, this means finding ways to strongly encourage airlines not to make so many flights out of a particular airport. To accomplish this, the FAA is floating two controversial proposals: One, making airlines pay more, or two, literally forcing them to put the interests of the airport and the air traffic system first...
...carrier to use LaGuardia more efficiently," says Neil Levin, the recently installed head of the Port Authority, who brings a businessman's impatience to the sluggish world of aviation policy. Levin seems to be itching to do something soon, and is not opposed to using strongarm tactics to accomplish his goal. One page of options from Levin's office boldly states that the Port will "eliminate the use of commuter aircraft" in an airline's reserved time spot. Airport types don't usually talk that way to the high and mighty airline folk...
...Erik Weihenmayer is the most visible hero of this past Everest expedition and deservedly so. But there were others that made it to the top with him, and for them the accomplishment is equally as great. One of them was a driven doctor from New Canaan, CT who fulfilled a life-long dream to not only scale the highest mountain in the world, but to climb the seven highest peaks on the earth?s seven continents. Climbers refer to this as conquering the "Seven Summits." For Dr. Sherman Bull, Everest was the final piece of a remarkable feat that...
...program took an enormous step this season by going into unknown territory," said co-captain Francis Volpe. "Starting during preseason workouts in September and continuing throughout the year, every member of our team made huge sacrifices and battled through injuries to accomplish what no other Harvard team has ever done before...
...firmly believe that every Harvard student should be exposed to many approaches to knowledge. Yet we deny that the large, watered-down lecture classes that constitute the bulk of the Core accomplish this task. The College can expand students’ options without increasing requirements, allowing undergraduates to choose the liberal arts education that they deserve...