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...enforce the age limit for pilots of foreign airlines, and even after it began to, in 1978, it issued waivers for several more years. Only in 1995 did the FAA extend the rule to U.S. pilots of smaller, commuter airlines. That move spurred Republican Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska to sponsor legislation to lift the age to 63. It failed, but last month Murkowski reintroduced the bill, and the measure may be voted on by the Senate in a few weeks, though its prospects for passage...
...thing, he wants literary fiction to enjoy the liberties of fantasy genres like science fiction or horror. His next novel will be about a detective in an alternative present day in which the Jewish state is not the Israel we know but a Yiddish-speaking homeland carved out of Alaska...
More big retailers and service businesses are incorporating IM into their e-commerce operations. Alaska Airlines allows customers to use IM to get quick answers to questions such as "Can I get bonus miles for this flight?" Lands' End (acquired by Sears in June) lets shoppers on its website use IM to get immediate answers from customer-service reps, instead of holding on the phone or waiting for a reply to an e-mail. Lands' End says customers who use IM are 70% more likely to buy than those who browse the website without using IM or who call...
...company. To an audience of 400 managers, Lovins, a globetrotting consultant who makes his home at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, posed questions the group had never heard. How do spiders spin threads stronger than Kevlar but without factories? How might Exxon officials have cleaned up Alaska after the Valdez disaster if they had known that hair absorbs oil better than anything else? Says Haythornthwaite: "He had us eating out of the palm of his hand...
...know that global warming from heat-trapping carbon dioxide, a by-product of fossil-fuel burning, threatens to cause chaos with the world's climate. And the terrorist assault on the World Trade Center raises other scary scenarios: how much easier would it be to crack open the Trans-Alaska pipeline and how much deadlier would it be to bomb a nuclear plant than to attack a wind farm...