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...time to shoot that dogma. The new philosophy should be strictly capitalistic: if you want it badly enough, pay for it. In congressional testimony last fall, John Carr, head of the air-traffic controllers' union, pointed out that at Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where the departure rate is 11 aircraft in a five-minute period, airlines were scheduling 16 takeoffs at the very same time. LaGuardia Airport in New York City has become Exhibit A of airline excess. Although the facility can accommodate 75 flights an hour, at times there are more than 100 planes scheduled. Since airlines evidently cannot...
...press a button in your car and link up to a satellite-based guidance system, but you can't do that in a $100 million aircraft. The FAA has scores of time-saving proposals, such as data-link communications and airspace redesign, but it is slogging through the years-long approval process. Congress has for the first time provided significant money, and FAA Administrator Jane Garvey has lighted a fire under the agency, but technological improvements should come much faster. The airline industry isn't breathing down the FAA's neck to get global-positioning systems installed, in part because...
...were at the huge Iraqi air base at Talil, as U.S. troops were first capturing it. These guys said they'd found an Iraqi bunker, and were about to call an artillery strike to take it out. I look through the binoculars, and although there's an anti-aircraft gun on top, the structure is the Mound of the Ziggurat - a step pyramid reputed to be the spot where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac. The beginning of civilization, one of the oldest structures in the world. So we pleaded with them not to do it, and urged them to call...
...will end up being the same sort weasel the previous critic was (I should mention that the previous music critic for TIME is a pretty cool guy). But inevitably there are moments where you feel the weasel metamorphosis happening. So I'm ushered into this sterile aircraft hangar-like space where the artists are sequestered, like jurors on lengthy murder trials, before their appointed times on stage. The place reminds me of the building where they store the alien ship in "Independence Day" - it's like a Latin Area 54, cut off from the world and public view. Most...
...waive implementation of aspects of the legislation, but it was President Clinton who actually signed Helms-Burton into law. That was in early 1996, shortly after Fidel Castro's air force shot down two unarmed civilian aircraft flown by Miami-based exiles that had been flying propaganda missions into Cuban airspace - and Mr. Clinton saw Florida as one of the critical battleground states in that year's reelection campaign. The legislation will make life difficult for President Bush, too, of course, because it transformed the Cuba embargo from a presidential decree into an act of Congress. And it'll force...