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These are heady times for India's fast-growing airline industry, which has been charting roughly 25% growth for the last three years. Never before have so many Indians found it so convenient and so affordable to fly for work or leisure, thanks to competition between a bevy of carriers like Air Deccan, SpiceJet, Kingfisher, IndiGo and Go Air. Their rock-bottom airfares have helped make more of India accessible to Indians, turning backwaters into boom towns. Last year, Indian airports handled 90.44 million passengers, compared with 67.95 million in the previous year...
...Nevada may play a more important role in the Democratic race. That's partly because the Republicans have their all important South Carolina primary on the very same day (the Dems' is a week later, on the 26th). But it's also because of the demographics of the fast-growing state, which is a sharp contrast to Iowa and New Hampshire. One third of Nevada's 2.5 million people are Hispanics, Asian-Americans and blacks, according to 2004 census figures. Unions - particularly Culinary 226, which includes Strip hospitality workers - have a huge presence here. Culinary alone has some...
...break something, they will take an X-ray at the emergency room. Show up with belly pain or breathing trouble and the same kind of X-ray - what we call a plain film - will usually be done. The reason we like plain films so much is that they're fast, easy, cheap and effective - and they expose patients to very little radiation. So little, in fact, that it's extremely hard (some experts say impossible) to demonstrate statistically that the radiation from an X-ray increases your risk of cancer. There's no question that X-rays can cause cancer...
...paint bounced off his hands straight to junior guard Andrew Pusar, who converted a lay-up for a 48-47 lead. After Northeastern retook the lead with a lay-up and the Crimson turned it over, Lin came up with a steal and fed Housman for a fast-break basket. On the team’s next offensive possession, Housman drove and dished to junior forward Evan Harris for a lay-up and 52-49 lead.All the momentum seemed to be in Harvard’s favor when Lin swatted forward Eugene Spates’ shot out of bounds...
...game was Huskies’ first in 13 days, following a break for exams. Perhaps taking advantage of its opponent’s layoff, the Crimson got off to a fast start, scoring on its first three possessions of the game and opening up a 14-10 lead with 14:10 left in the half...