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Fare Sale I. SouthWest has got tickets on sale, fly from Chicago Midway to Los Angeles for $99, or travel from Denver to Seattle-Tacoma for $69. Fly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, if you can, for the best deals, and check out the website for more destinations. Purchase by Feb. 19, for travel...
Fare Sale II. AirTran Airways has got travel to all the airline's destinations (like Chicago to Tampa for $79, or Atlanta to San Juan for $99) on sale. Purchase by Feb. 10. Good for travel to Florida and San Juan through March 11, and all other destinations through May 20. 800-AIR-TRAN...
...early 1970s. But even as the fleet more than tripled in size, from 200 helicopters in 1988 to around 665 today, safety problems festered. On average, five EMS helicopters crashed every year between 1988 and 1997, according to new research by Dr. Ira Blumen, director of the University of Chicago Aeromedical Network. The average has doubled to more than 12 crashes per year since 1998. The past 15 months have been the deadliest yet: there have been 18 helicopter-ambulance crashes since October 2007, including 11 fatal accidents that left 36 people dead. "The current accident record is unacceptable...
...Fighter In looks and demeanor, Melton is the quintessential professor, soft-spoken and thoughtful, someone who appears more mentor than maverick. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, he developed an early fascination with animal development; that curiosity led to a bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Illinois in 1975, then a second undergraduate degree, in the history and philosophy of science, at Cambridge University on a Marshall Scholarship. Melton remained there for his Ph.D. work, studying under Sir John Gurdon - the first to clone a frog. At Harvard, Melton teaches a frequently oversubscribed undergraduate...
...fashioned. Blago seems less an old Chicago-machine boss than a distinct 21st century character: the American with Too Much Self-Esteem...