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Thanks in part to such sessions, American Airlines is coming back from the brink. In the aftermath of 9/11, when two of its planes went down, American suffered from a collapse in air travel, two wars, a rotten economy, the outbreak of SARS and the rise of low-cost carriers--all of which conspired to put the airline on the verge of bankruptcy in April 2003. What's more, employees were in open revolt after they discovered that CEO Don Carty had secretly handed out retention bonuses and pension guarantees to executives, even as he was negotiating $1.8 billion...
...brink of decoding a five hundred year old secret, one violent campus murder throws two college seniors into a whirlwind of mystery, betrayal and discovery. Set on Princeton’s campus, The Rule of Four, by Princeton alum Ian Caldwell and Dustin E. Thomason ’98, blends fact and fiction around one of the most rare, yet least understood books of the Renaissance period, the Hynerotomachia Poliphili...
...extinction, the island's remarkable wildlife would be doomed as well. But now there's growing optimism that the island can halt centuries of environmental despoliation and maybe even reverse some of the damage. "With a lot of luck and effort and help, Madagascar can pull back from the brink," says Frank Hawkins, technical director of the Madagascar Center for Biodiversity Conservation, a unit of the U.S. environmental NGO Conservation International. He and his wife, Joanna Durbin, who heads the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island, are heartened by the 2002 election of reform-minded President Marc Ravalomanana...
...snapshots Carlson took of not-so-civil disobedience ended up appearing first in the widely-read pages of Life Magazine, he says, and soon he was traveling to observe Palestinians in Lebanon as a freelance writer and photographer. With any luck, it seemed, Carlson stood on the brink of a successful career as an overseas photojournalist covering some of the most harrowing and important stories in the world...
...though the Sox faltered a little bit early this year, like Mickelson, they’ll make a late charge and finish with a similar improbable win in the seventh game of the World Series. The Sox stacked rotation of Martinez, Schilling, and Lowe bring the Sox to the brink, and Ortiz will mirror Mickelson’s late heroics with another Green Monster shot in the end. Everyone thought that Mickelson would never win the big one, and everyone thinks the Sox won’t be able to this year because of injuries, contract squabbles, or whatever else...