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Marc O. Laitin '96-97 will not be here for graduation. The sailing team member departed yesterday for the U.S. National fleet racing competition in Wisconsin...
...charming as Fenway is, its seats are cramped, concessions inadequate and rest rooms too few. The entire place is antiquated. The tradition of the Boston Celtics, along with the team's parquet floor, made the trip from the old Boston Garden--now there is a dump--to the new Fleet Center quite nicely. Fenway's Green Monster will travel just as well. WILLARD L. GORTON Simsbury, Connecticut...
...Florida from Atlanta; today it serves 31 cities in 19 states. It reported that in April it had flown 50% more "revenue passenger miles" than it had in April 1995. But last month it also announced it had reached a voluntary decision to slow the expansion of its fleet...
...wary giants. "We're not pulling traffic away from anyone," says Mark Morro, chairman of Air 21, which last December began flying Fokker F.28 4000s, leased from USAir, out of Fresno. "We're bringing passengers back to the airport." Lewis Jordan, president of ValuJet, which bases its 47-plane fleet in Atlanta, says Delta, its looming neighbor at Hartsfield Airfield, has nothing to fear. "We stole people from their living rooms and automobiles," he insists, not from Delta flights. Maybe, but ValuJet earned $67.8 million last year on sales of $367.8 million, nearly triple its sales...
...assessing whether to sell China technology to build turbine engines that some experts think could be used to power cruise missiles. Such weapons, according to U.S. Navy officials, played a decisive role in a classified war game, simulated in 1994, in which Chinese forces "defeated" the U.S. Seventh Fleet in 2010. Later this year, the National Defense University in Washington will publish a study that estimates that China could surpass the U.S. as a superpower in 35 years...