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...consider the obstacles Bush overcame and the rules that were broken by his victory. Since the country previously met at the polls, voters have encountered a record deficit, job losses, airport shoe searches, rising bankruptcies and bruising battles over stem-cell research and the definition of marriage. On the eve of Election Day, fully 55% of voters said the country was moving in the wrong direction. Only 49% approved of the job the President was doing, and anything below 50% is supposed to be fatal to an incumbent. A war that Bush promised would cost no more than $50 billion...
...BlackBerry while the Senator was giving interviews by satellite in West Palm Beach, Fla. Shrum, who cannot type, dictated a brief statement to Josh Gottheimer, one of the campaign's young speechwriters, which they showed to the candidate in the limo on the way to the airport. Kerry deleted only one sentence, the first one, which referred to how bin Laden had castigated both him and the President...
...response to this tape from Osama bin Laden, let me make it clear, crystal clear," Kerry said when he delivered the statement at the airport. "As Americans, we are absolutely united in our determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists. They are barbarians...
...first issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review, dated Oct. 16, 1946-14 months after the Japanese surrendered Hong Kong-ran a report saying the colony's Kai Tak airport would have to be replaced by a facility on a bigger, safer site. Kai Tak, in fact, grew and prospered and lasted another 51 years. The Review lasted even longer, reporting on business and political issues from every country in the region. But last week owner Dow Jones & Co. announced that following six unprofitable years, the Review would be turned into a monthly periodical of opinion pieces...
...with accuracy levels of more than 90%. The simulator, which IBM is demonstrating to potential customers, works by combining data on flight reservations, airport layouts and staff work schedules. It then calculates the expected passenger pressure and staffing requirements, giving airport bosses the chance to make manpower changes. With European airports expected to see passenger traffic double by 2020, several, including one that's considering a pilot scheme, have expressed interest in the approximately $1 million system (IBM won't say which at this point). "Airports are [likely] to become the next major bottleneck," says Ronan Anderson of the Airports...