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DIED. FREDDIE LAKER, 83, ebullient airline-industry underdog and visionary who in the 1970s pioneered the concept of cheap fares for the masses with his short-lived but much admired Skytrain service; in Hollywood, Fla. Launched in 1978, the London-based service encouraged flyers to cross the Atlantic casually, without even booking a flight. (If a flight was full, passengers simply waited for the next one.) Though his company disbanded in 1982 after bigger airlines slashed their fares, Laker became a hero to entrepreneurs including his fellow Briton Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson...
...academic place, which I wouldn’t have predicted. There’s been a lot of crying.”“Thin” follows four women who suffer from eating disorders during their stays at the Renfrew Center, an eating disorder treatment facility in Fla. While their experiences are marked by clashes with staff members, tensions between patients, and bouts of severe depression, by far the most wrenching scenes involve food, and Micheli’s camera never falters as the women struggle to force down cupcakes and, more than once, give in to purging...
...Deficit Reduction Act seeks to curb the unsustainable growth rate of mandatory programs that are set to consume 62 percent of our total federal budget in the next decade if left unchecked,” said Rep. Adam H. Putnam, R—Fla, according to the Associated Press...
Harvard released its complete 2006 schedule on Monday. The team will see its first real action in the field—maybe at all, depending on whether the early spring cold keeps February practices indoors—in Gainesville, Fla. from March...
SARAH E. F. MILOV ’07 of Orlando, Fla. and Mather House