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...contravene international agreements and could cause major disruptions in the coming summer travel season. "This could open up the U.S. to retaliation," says a former transportation official. Overflight rights are long established in international skies, he notes, and restricting them "would be much more of a burden for U.S. airlines, which fly over many more countries than foreign airlines passing through U.S. airspace." --By Brian Bennett. With reporting by Sally B. Donnelly and Timothy J. Burger
...relentless search starts in the obvious setting of his own home, but his mother—played, interestingly enough, by Duchovny’s real-life wife Téa Leoni—proves to be too anxiety-ridden and grief-stricken to be anything other than a burden...
Currie, formerly the Crimson’s competitor as a dancer with the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and now in her second year as CDT’s coach, has released some of that burden...
Here at home, we would have addressed in a serious way the huge opportunities that exist in this country, including the health care crisis that America is faced with. This president does nothing about health care—nothing. The health care system is a huge burden on most Americans and on most American business and the American economy and the President pretends it’s just fine. The gap between people who are doing well in this country and people who are struggling gets wider and wider. The income gap, the asset gap continue to get worse under...
Between your second and third fingers is where the Enola Gay dropped the Bomb at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6. Once relieved of its nearly 9,000-lb. burden, the plane thrust upward, jerking the heads of the crew. The B-29 made a 60° dive and a 158° right turn. Forty-three seconds after the Bomb was released, it detonated. The crew members watched it explode in a red core below them. Then they headed back to base, the tiny island of Tinian in the Northern Marianas, 1,600 miles to the south...