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There are signs, though, that change is under way. While his predecessors kept union negotiations at arm's length, union leaders say, Walsh's direct involvement helped speed up a resolution. With Walsh and his union counterpart sequestered in a London hotel, says Brendan Gold, T&G's national secretary for civil air transport, "serious negotiations were done." Ahead of BA's move next year into the new $8.5 billion Heathrow Terminal 5, the airline persuaded thousands of ground staff to agree to change their practices. So, while an aircraft tug driver used to leave work before...
...endowment's 23-percent gain was fueled largely by rapid growth in emerging markets, private equity, and real estate, according to Mohamed A. El-Erian, the president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, the University’s investment arm...
...February 2003, when superheated gases generated during reentry entered the ship through a breach in the insulation. Ever since then, astronauts have given their spacecraft a close visual inspection upon reaching orbit to look for any troublesome chips. On Sunday, a 3D laser imager attached to Endeavour's robotic arm revealed what could be a nasty...
...would be to quit the teaching profession and become a professional astronaut, relegating kids' education from space to a much more incidental part of her responsibilities. She applied for a slot and in 1998 was selected; she is now flying as a mission specialist, responsible for operating the robotic arm of both the shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS), with which the crew will be docking...
...Africa's population has Internet access, but that may be about to change. Until now, Africa's only connection to the network that powers the Internet was a submarine cable running from Portugal down the west coast of Africa. Now the International Finance Corp., the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, is investing up to $32.5 million in an undersea fiber-optic-cable project called the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), reaching approximately 250 million more people. Here are the parts of Africa that will be newly wired...