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...Very Big Hostage Not Through Our Strait, You're Not! The mighty varyag, an aircraft carrier once intended to be the pride of the Soviet fleet, is 300 m long, displaces 67,500 tons of water and is stuck. For 13 months, the decommissioned behemoth has been marooned in the Black Sea waiting to be towed to Macau, where it's slated to become a floating casino. Turkey won't let it go?ostensibly because it could sideswipe houses along the Bosphorus Strait, even though the waterway is 700 m wide at its narrowest. Politics is the more likely culprit...
...AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Rumsfeld's strategic planners think the current carriers are slow, easy targets. The 21st century may demand smaller, faster ships. He'd like to eliminate one of the Navy's 12 carrier groups--6,000 sailors, five support ships, 80 planes. The Navy is trying to avoid that scenario...
...terms the social architecture of a wide range of species--their breeding behavior, gender dominance, caste systems. "In a Darwinian sense," Wilson wrote, "the organism does not live for itself. Its primary function is not even to reproduce other organisms; it reproduces genes, and it serves as their temporary carrier...
...priority: jettisoning the airline's partnerships. First to go was Air Littoral, a regional French airline that was sold to its management, eliminating $90 million a year in losses. Corti followed up by bailing out of another regional French carrier, AOM/Air Liberté, which was also generating millions of losses. "The exit from France should further reassure our stakeholders that we are committed to resolving loss-making minority airline participation issues and to fully focus on our core airline business, Swissair and Crossair," Corti said...
...management in place, a new business strategy and a new name - or, rather, an old one. Symbolically, Conti dropped the unevocative SAirgroup and changed it back to Swissair. That's a good reminder of the task at hand: getting back to the basics of being a midsized European carrier - and a profitable...