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...George W. Bush has promised to do whatever it takes to prevent UAL machinists from going on strike and finishing off ailing giant United, and other bigs like American, Continental and Delta say they?ll make it through - but even high-flying Southwest is expected to bleed red ink this quarter. Before September 11, regional jets and small, nimble carriers were already eating away at the debt-ridden big guys' share of the skies. After Sept. 11, it's starting to look like the comet and the dinosaurs, and this holiday should provide most of the dust...
Southwest $345 million profit 20.8% down TWA $275 million loss 52.7% down* Continental $296 million loss 64.5% down Northwest $609 million loss 56.1% down Delta $1.01 billion loss 48.8% down U.S. Airways $1.19 billion loss 88.9% down American $1.46 billion loss 52.7% down* United $1.89 billion loss 71.7% down...
...police spokesperson cited recent security breaches as the reason for dismissing Argenbright Security, which has handled airport checkpoints for Delta Airlines, Delta Shuttle, U.S. Airways and America West at Logan. Last year, the company paid a $1 million fine for hiring convicted felons...
...Laden to reveal himself. Above the gnarled ridges outside the besieged cities of Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that they could get warplanes to do the dirty, risky work. Bands of local Afghan fighters--whether driven by the desire...
...those living nearby, anthrax is the least of their worries. Soviet siphoning of water from the Amu Dar'ya river to irrigate vast collectivized cotton farms turned the fertile delta into desert in a few decades. The Aral Sea split into two and receded to less than half its size. Rains failed. Without the sea, temperatures became erratic. What water remained was a concentrated cocktail of salt, minerals and pesticide runoff from the cotton fields upstream. Moynaq, the nearest town, watched its livelihood drain away with the parting Aral. The former bustling port used to can 70 million tins...