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...second proposal is to run off these pesky little aircraft and establish a minimum aircraft size for planes who want to come into LaGuardia. Aviation economists routinely point out that while the number of flights has jumped by double-digit percentages in major U.S. markets over the past decade or so, the increase has come with the advent of smaller planes. The number of actual seats, in other words, has pretty much stayed the same...
...victory, coupled with a close loss to Princeton, set the stage for the 11-game tear, one in which the benefits of the Crimson's strenuous preseason workout regimen became obvious. Harvard also held the opposition to single-digit scoring throughout that stretch, a testament to the team's strength...
...Well, an experiment begun three years ago to do just that has proved a resounding success. After a Massachusetts machinist lost part of his thumb in an industrial accident, bone cells were taken from his forearm, placed on a thumb-shaped scaffolding made of coral and implanted on the digit. Now the coral is dissolving, new bone tissue is growing and the patient is able to write, grasp and otherwise carry on with normal activities...
...presence--even though the eye picks it up. They reported at a meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Sarasota, Fla., last week that even when synesthetes can't "see" a peripheral image--say a 5 that's "crowded" by 3s--they see the color associated with the digit in question. That suggests that synesthesia occurs in the earliest stages of perception--before the brain ascribes meaning to what the eye reports...
These companies were blinded by the dust of an economy skidding to a halt. Corporate profits dropped 8% in the first quarter, a stunning reversal from the double-digit growth forecast last year. Not wanting to get it wrong again, a lot of CEOs are simply saying they'll have to wait and see. Worsening the vision void, new regulations require that companies say nothing unless they say it in a venue for all to hear. Regulation FD (fair disclosure) has curtailed guidance on earnings...