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...raising fares. They don't want to shrink demand with higher list prices, nor do they want to be the high fare when consumers scan travel websites for deals, nor break through certain price levels. So they have added a menu of charges, which vary by airline. The only constant is passenger frustration. First it was meals, then baggage, then soft drinks and bottled water, and finally, JetBlue's blanket policy...
...case highlights the intense pressure the constant threat of terrorism places on the Met, which leads all counterterrorism investigations in Britain as well as those affecting British nationals abroad. A New York Police Department (NYPD) official who has worked closely with the Met says the scale of London's counterterrorism operation is striking: "The numbers there are just overwhelming - just an astounding number of people they're trying to keep track of." It's not just that his London counterparts have more practice in counterterrorism operations, says Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing, Commanding Officer of the Los Angeles Police Department...
...Americans, Belgians, French and a South Korean. Lingua franca is English, with liberal amounts of Danish mixed in. When we arrive, we are given breakfast, and we soon learn that the preparation and consumption of food takes up a significant slice of time at NEEM. It might be the constant sunlight, which gives the sense that the days are (literally) endless, or the European flavor of the camp, but life at NEEM seems to move at a leisurely place. (Todd Sowers, an American professor from Penn State University, chalks it up to the latter - and he notes...
...Tanzania CONSTANT PERIL Albinos in this East African nation are fearing for their lives after the latest in a rash of ritualistic murders. More than 20 albinos, who suffer from a genetic disorder that results in sensitive, pigmentless skin, blond hair and blue eyes, have been killed in the past year. The main suspects are local witch doctors, who sell albino organs and hacked-off body parts as good-luck charms. In April, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete appointed an albino to be a Member of Parliament and ordered a crackdown on witch doctors...
Perhaps, in retrospect, JV Games should have seen this coming. After all, drinking games and video games may be two of college kids' favorite pastimes, but they are also a source of constant complaints from the students' middle-aged parents. So when the softwaremaker tried to combine the two adolescent activities, many critics felt it had gone...