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...birds-with-one-stone solution: bring back fall 2007! The networks kept many of their new shows off the air after the strike, and are now relaunching them after a long absence for a "do over" season. The pitch: Remember all those shows you were mildly interested in last fall, America? We bet you'll be even more mildly interested in them this fall...
...This ruling will restore the quiet and the clean air in Yellowstone for everyone to enjoy.' AMY MCNAMARA, director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, after a federal judge rejected a plan to allow more than 500 snowmobiles a day into the national park...
...vehicle available: a white Chevy Suburban, hulking and armed with enough gasoline to cause the next tragic oil spill. Okay, we thought, we would be the most eco-unfriendly people there and would probably make very little friends with our huge SUV, but we would rest well on the air mattress that fit in the back.We were traversing the great forests and farms of the American Heartland! We were wild! We were free!Sure we had our flaws. Perhaps we should have been reading “On the Road” along the way rather than David Sedaris...
...Party of China. I thought that I had perhaps stumbled upon a band singing true songs of (gasp!) protest—at least until the lead singer Zhang Shuowang broke into the chorus. It is not hyperbole to say that I have never seen so many cigarettes in the air at one time in my entire life. Fans began hurling them by the handful at the band as they sang, as if to the beat. Days later, my embarrassed coworker un-embarrassed herself and informed me that Zhong Nan Hai is a popular brand of cigarettes and that everyone...
...more than half a century, pilots have been considered the essence of the Air Force. But in reality, they're just a tiny slice of the service. They account for only 13,202 of the 324,191 active duty personnel wearing Air Force blues, and the service is now buying more unmanned than manned aircraft. It's a trend that experts say will only accelerate. So this week the Air Force, acknowledging that it no longer makes sense to spend $1 million training a pilot to fly drones from a desk halfway around the world, declaring that future drone drivers...