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...million. Since then the hub-and-spoke carriers have retreated to their fortresses while beefing up their commuter-feeder operations. Northwest dropped Washington's National Airport to concentrate on Detroit and Minneapolis, where it had 78% and 84% of the market respectively by late last year. American dropped Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; San Jose, California; and Nashville, Tennessee, in order to bolster Miami and Dallas; Continental ditched Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...sandwiched by four F-16s--three above him and one below--after he was told all four would be passing above him. With one F-16 running low on fuel, the four jets screamed by within 1,500 ft. of the turboprop, which was bound for J.F.K. from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON A WING AND A PRAYER | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

CHICAGO: As anyone wrestling with nicotine addiction knows, that first day can seem an eternity. Now, researchers studying the effectiveness of the nicotine patch are placing odds on whether your first tobacco-free 24 hours will really last forever. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center studied 200 smokers who buttressed their "quit day" by starting on a nicotine patch program. Those who broke down and cheated that first day were "10 times more likely to be smoking" in the long run, said one of the researchers, Dr. Eric Westman of Durham, N.C. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unkindest Puff | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

With a population of 130 companies and 92,000 employees clustered in and around it, North Carolina's Research Triangle Park is the region's showcase for jobs and technology. Nearby are the resources of Raleigh and Durham and three universities. (Some 660 classroom trailers handle the student overflow at local public schools in a testament to the hectic growth of the area.) The East Coast headquarters of Cisco Systems, planning to boost its work force from 550 employees to 2,000 in the near future, is hiring at an even faster clip than company plants in Silicon Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE THE JOBS ARE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...NATION, Nov. 25] is not all that questionable in light of the National Transportation Safety Board's inconclusive explanations. It brings me to quote history's most famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes: "When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." KAM-WAN WONG Durham, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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