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...November, Eurocontrol negotiated what Hendriks calls a "gentleman's agreement" with Blink, Jet Bird and other microjet operators that they would not fly above 28,000 ft. (8,500 m), the minimum cruising altitude of commercial jets. But that agreement collapsed in April after the operators claimed that flying at lower altitudes would burn too much fuel, making it tough to operate profitably. In October, Eurocontrol will conduct a simulation in Budapest that will flood air-traffic control with hundreds of microjets. If the test suggests that the safety of larger planes could be compromised, Eurocontrol may push regulators...
BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, officially launched a collaborative research program with Harvard yesterday. Under the terms of the agreement jointly established by the University’s Office of Technology Development and BASF in October 2007, the German company will provide $20 million over the next five years to support Harvard researchers in areas including the applied sciences, engineering, and chemical and systems biology. “As researchers, we are constantly looking for new, interesting problems to work on,” said physics professor David A. Weitz, who is co-directing the BASF...
...talks aimed at finding a political settlement to end the island's division could change all that. In February the Greek Cypriots elected President Dimitris Christofias, an old left-wing acquaintance of the Turkish Cypriot President, Mehmet Ali Talat; the two are more open to an agreement than their predecessors were. And while cooperation improved somewhat after a first crossing opened in 2003, there are now real hopes that some form of loose federation is in sight. Formal negotiations could begin in June...
...nothing on Cyprus moves quickly. Negotiations between the two communities have been going on sporadically for more than 30 years. Gary Robb says the latest overtures don't worry him yet. Even allowing for an agreement, extradition proceedings could take years, his lawyers tell him. Robb dons a pair of rimless Ray Bans and stares out to sea. "As long as you're on Turkish Cyprus, there are no real problems," he says. And the weather is better than it would be in other possible hideouts. Minsk, anyone...
...Ueno Zoo. Ling Ling died overnight of heart failure and kidney malfunction. His portrait now sits inside his cage, next to bouquets and his favorite bamboo shoots. Some visitors wept; others prayed and wrote notes to his memory. In 1992, Ling Ling was part of a bilateral trade agreement of sorts: the Chinese gave Tokyo a giant black-and-white panda - native to its southwest - in exchange for a panda the Japanese had bred in captivity. China has since stopped giving pandas away as part of its diplomatic policy and has also suspended its lucrative "loans" of the animals...