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Delta's Nonstop Delays. FlyersRights.org's new report on tarmac delays gives Delta Airlines the "When You Are on the Ground, They Treat You Like Dirt" award, for having had the longest delays - up to 10 hours on the tarmac - and the most delays over three hours in 2008. According to the watchdog group, Delta kept passengers on more than 300 flights waiting on the tarmac for three hours or longer last year. Southwest was given the "My Heavens" award for putting into action a plan to move passengers stuck on the tarmac off the planes and for providing food...
...from shopping centers and restaurants, the southwestern outskirts of Albuquerque are vast and windswept, with tumbleweeds careering across the barren landscape. Dirt bikers tear up and down sandy hillsides, gleeful that nobody is around to be disturbed by the whine of their engines. Through the years, this isolation has made the area popular for dumping the occasional unwanted body. "We have seen remains on the West Side," said Walsh, "They might be ancient bones or those fallen prey to violence. But this is a first for us, in the number of remains...
Front-end loaders and backhoes roll through the 92-acre housing development, up to 14 hours a day six days a week, tossing dirt into big piles that are then raked by hand. Hampering their job is 15 ft. of fill dirt that was spread across the uneven terrain by the developers to bring it up to subdivision standards, probably a couple of years...
...wild-and-crazy guy whose grandfather had co-founded Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Howard recruited smart, aggressive talent throughout the 1970s and let it loose to dig up dirt, badger Denver's cowboy-booted establishment and raise journalistic hell. Occasional newsroom gunplay and rampant staff drug use aside, those Hunter Thompson-like efforts paid off: the Rocky topped the Post's circulation in 1980. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...ndia, though, and you don't sense the relentless doom and gloom gripping other cities in the world. Take Efigênia Francisca da Silva, who exudes middle-class expectations and remains positive despite the tsunami of bad news. Thanks to a government scheme to encourage entrepreneurs, the once dirt-poor housewife has received some $8,000 in low-interest bank credits in recent years and now owns three shops that sell everything from shampoo to public-transit tickets. "I didn't have a bank account before," says Da Silva, 37, standing beneath graffiti-covered walls and pirated power lines...