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...will soon begin testing technology to shield passenger airliners from shoulder-fired missile attacks. Israeli airline El Al fitted its fleet with antimissile capabilities after a jet narrowly escaped an attack in Kenya in 2002. Will it work? Is it worth it? A look...
...your first show back, you said, "We look like a car in the late-night fleet, but believe me when I tell you, under our hood is a 1982 Pinto engine." Please explain. I was trying to make the point that I wear a tie, I come out and make fun of Britney Spears and President Bush, famous people come and sit next to me - we have the ingredients of a late night show. But a lot of things behind-the-scenes differentiate us. We're the little guy. We're 30 minutes. We're the caboose of the almighty...
...theater-savvy friend Victor Nelson asked me a few weeks ago about Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tim Burton's film version of the 1979 Stephen Sondheim musical. He wondered if Helena Bonham Carter was up to the vocal challenge of the Mrs. Lovett role. She's excellent, I replied; but aren't you anxious about Johnny Depp as the mad barber? He's not a trained singer. "Oh," Victor said with a knowing laugh, "Johnny Depp can do anything...
...programs to retire fishing vessels in the E.U. fleet, and offers compensation and retraining for those forced out of work. But it has not done enough to halt the decline in stocks, say critics of the current system. Quotas were first introduced with the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), agreed in Brussels in 1983, and set up a system of quotas for each E.U. member state. But the system is poorly enforced, and cannot maintain sustainable stocks. Also, millions of tons of dead fish are thrown back in the sea because they cannot be landed due to the quota rules. Earlier...
...belched black fumes. So, the government decided to replace the old bus routes with new ones linked to the metro network in a system that has eliminated cash and works entirely by swipe cards. The battered old yellow buses have been replaced by smart new high-tech fleet...