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Another Bad Summer for United, or an Opportunity? Summer is supposed to be salad days for airlines. It's when the kids are out of school, mom and dad slow down at work, and everybody heads for the hills, or the beach, or even overseas - on a plane. Over the last few summers, airlines have seen their 'load factors' - the industry term for how much of the plane is packed with passengers - soar to near 90 per cent. With new measures in hand to prevent overloading the air traffic system, and given how well the carriers seemed to have handled...
...Smith, a scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, says this particular skeleton was probably torn apart by sharp-toothed predators as it lay on the beach of a warm tropical sea. He found only a few bones, but they were enough to calculate the dinosaur's gargantuan size at 80 to 100 feet long and weighing 60-70 tons. The find solves another mystery: what those previously discovered predators - three different kinds, each (at 50 feet) bigger than Tyrannosaurus Rex - were dining on during their prehistoric stay on the old North African coast. Said Smith: "Now we've found...
...With reporting by Anne Berryman/Conyers, Edward Barnes/Edinboro, Stephen Barnes/Jonesboro, Nancy Harbert/Albuquerque and Springfield, Broward Liston/West Palm Beach, Michelle McCalope/Clifton, Natalie Phillips/Seward, David Schwartz/Phoenix, David Thigpen/Paducah and Rod Walton/Fort Gibson
...have an easier time identifying the country if the leadership were tending in one direction and the people were tending in another. But the people aren't tending. Everyone seems contented as a cow to stay at home, order out for pizza and plan a vacation to Virginia Beach. Should I write a book about America being bored with itself? I need a title. Yawning in America...
...definitely relate. I hate losing too. And it occurred to me that maybe kids aren't such scary aliens after all. And maybe, just maybe, this Game Boy craze isn't so dumb. In Konami's Krazy Racers, you can race in space or on the beach. You can drop off a cloud and drive in a lake. It's silly and fun and makes the impossible possible--nothing scary about...