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...most popular attractions during the week did not even participate in the parade. The aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy arrived on Monday morning and was open to the public later in the week. The carrier was escorted by a pair of cruisers, the USS Hue City and the USS Vicksburg and by a destroyer, the USS McFaul...
...obvious exceptions--the San Franciscos and Ann Arbors, the Chicagos and Charlestons--and I can count on one hand the places I have any distinct recollection of. The rest is a low-slung, conglomerized blur of obliterated history--of forgotten downtowns ringed by cake-box superstores with aircraft-carrier parking lots and terrific discounts on six-packs of socks...
...exclusive means of transmitting the messages, or leverage its service against anything else. It's just overwhelmingly popular," he says. "But if the feds are going to allow AOL to own Time Warner's cable lines, they want assurances that AOL won't turn them into an exclusive carrier of AOL content. And the company's use of its IM domination isn't very reassuring." AOL isn't a monopolist now, and AOL-Time Warner would be no more of a cable monopoly than Time Warner (corporate overlord of this site) has been. It's more a question of corporate...
...airline industry was bound to take off in the jetwash of the proposed United-US Airways merger, but a report that honchos at No. 2 American Airlines and No. 4 Northwest have been in contact about a deal of their own - which would create a new top dog mega-carrier with nearly 30 percent market share - smells suspiciously like a bluff. "Obviously, there's a fever in the industry to consolidate for fear of getting left behind by United," says TIME business writer John Greenwald. "But it seems like the government would never allow this one. It doesn't make...
They're the FICA of your phone bill: those mysterious three-, five- or 10-dollar charges that show up on your phone bill for services you don't really understand. They're called "access fees," and they're basically a tribute that your long-distance carrier has to pay your local phone company for using its wires (and part of the regulatory hangover still lingering after the breakup of AT&T). But never mind all that - they're about to go down. The FCC on Wednesday promised lower July phone bills for everyone after it slashed those fees...