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...traveler's experience is going to depend more than ever on where the trip starts. The smaller cities that were the biggest beneficiaries of the hub system could well be among the principal losers in any industry overhaul. Cutbacks could be facing cities such as Albany, N.Y.; Fargo, N.D.; and Fresno, Calif. US Airways has said it will drop flights to Saginaw, Mich. Smaller, regional jets may help plug some of the gaps, but the economics of such planes require more business passengers and fewer tourists...
...statistics on child abductions are unreliable, unable to settle whether such crimes are growing more common or even how widespread they are. The Justice Department estimates that the number of children taken by strangers annually is between 3,000 and 4,000. The figures aren't firm; they depend on the vagaries of local police reports that classify disappearances differently--sometimes as murders, sometimes as other things such as rape, depending on the circumstances of the crime...
...varied reasons for home sharing often depend on age. In a study of 105 home providers conducted at the University of Kansas Life Span Institute, researchers R. Mark Mathews and Deborah Altus found that people 55 to 70 tended to value home sharing for its financial savings while the 70-and-older group prized the service and security. The older people wanted someone else in the home so that they would feel safer as well as get some help with chores. "One woman in her mid-70s, who'd applied for a housemate after her husband died, ended up having...
...least it's something. At least it makes a dent. Exactly how big a dent is hard to know. The statistics on child abductions are unreliable, unable to settle the matter of whether such crimes are growing more common, or even how widespread they are. The figures depend on the vagaries of local police reports that classify disappearances differently - sometimes as murders, sometimes as other things such as rape, depending on the circumstances of the crime. The fear and confusion unleashed by the abduction stories can't be expressed as math. Its power is primal, as gripping as an empty...
...fatal illnesses, perhaps contracted from eating poisoned fish. Or startled reactions to the cacophony of a ship's engine. Or the sudden appearance of a predator. Some scientists have even linked whale groundings to magnetic anomalies that can play havoc with the internal compasses on which whales seem to depend for navigation. One scenario, however, has been pretty much dismissed in this case: disruption by underwater sonic booms from the powerful new U.S. Navy submarine-hunting sonar that recently inflicted fatal hearing damage on beaked whales in the Bahamas--and prompted an outcry from environmentalists when the Bush Administration allowed...