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...make decent money. Flights today are usually 80% full, but average profits on tickets--what the airlines call yield--are down 24% since 2000, according to AirlineForecasts, an aviation consulting firm. Major airlines have lost or written off $50 billion in the past five years, and two of them, Delta and Northwest, are still in bankruptcy...
...great! That's just what we need before the busiest travel time of the year--a merger of two flying dinosaurs to create the country's first behemoth airline. And to top it off, the proposed $8 billion takeover of Delta Air Lines by US Airways would join the two major carriers that finished at the bottom of one of the 2006 quality ratings...
...Haven slammer. 1963: Widener Library’s pillars were disgraced with “Beat Harvard” spelled out in blue paint. The removal was costly, and the Elis won (boo), but the perpetrators were slapped with a suspension. 1982: MIT’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity rigged a large black weather balloon to emerge out of the field’s 45-yard line during the second quarter of the game. Affectionately named “The Blob,” said balloon was emblazoned with the school’s name...
...Free” and a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Have Love Will Travel,” both from “Thickfreakness,” elicited the most response from the crowd, and Auerbach’s signature howl-and-croon, more delta-bluesman than bearded white guy, reached new heights (and depths). Sampling equally from their last three releases, both of the Keys drove the beat to the bone, torturing earth-tinged blues from their instruments with such synchronicity that every head in the venue moved in unison. Indeed...
...associated. But tackling diarrhea has never had the high profile of other public-health crises. There's much to do; though experts know what interventions can reduce needless deaths, getting them in place is not always easy. There are thousands of villages in places such as Bangladesh's muddy delta and the dry northern expanses of Ethiopia that still lack the infrastructure, education and methods of treatment that would protect their children's lives. To be sure, there is some good news; a recent report by unicef found that global access to safe drinking water rose from...