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The FBI has long been worried about the vulnerability of the nation's rail system to terror attack. But the threat was deemed immediate enough late last week for the agency to issue a formal warning. The alert cautioned that al-Qaeda, "possibly using operatives who have a Western appearance...
Your funding comes from various ministries, and individual donors. What about businesses? They are conspicuously absent. Apart from McDonald's - which donated over 3150,000 to us after one of its restaurants was bombed in Brittany - no private business has accepted our appeals for funds. Not even big companies whose...
TRAVELING MINORS The escort fee for an unaccompanied child is creeping up. Plan to pay as much as $75 for connecting flights on some airlines.
IN-FLIGHT MEALS Some airlines are talking about charging for meals. So far, they're just serving less, sometimes replacing hot food with bags of pretzels.
The worst-situated industries include airlines, autos, construction and heavy equipment. At the end of August, UBS Warburg reports, General Motors had a whopping pension-fund shortfall of $22.2 billion, equal to 83% of the company's market value. Excluding tax benefits, $4 of the first $5 that GM earns...