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Sitting in the airport, you’re in the midst of calling your blockmate when you get a text informing you that your flight has been delayed. Bored, you find yourself perusing Facebook for pics of that cute guy in section when you remember—shit! You forgot to submit your paper to your TF! No problem, before long it’s zooming through cyberspace onto her desktop as an email attachment. You breathe a sigh of relief. Life used to be tough, you muse while gazing affectionately at your new best friend and faithful tagalong...
...room (not as sketchy as it sounds, honestly), and partly because, well, I’m kind of an idiot.I left school on Dec. 19, the last day before winter vacation, excited to get back to my hometown of Denver for a much-needed vacation (read: writing papers). My flight was scheduled to leave at 6 p.m., so I took the T not long after 4 p.m. (I now get why people take cabs all the time, despite the fact that it’s twenty times as expensive.) As I arrived at the Silver Line shuttle stop just...
Bumblebees defy the physics of flight, helicopter pilots like to say - and so it seems do the whirlybirds flying, and too often crashing, in Iraq recently. The crash of a Marine Sea Knight chopper northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday - killing all seven aboard - marks the fourth time a U.S. military helicopter has gone down in Iraq in just more than two weeks (an additional downing was of a U.S. contractor's chopper). Like clockwork, al-Qaeda-linked Sunni insurgents quickly claimed responsibility for Wednesday's downing, which brought to 28 the number of helicopter fatalities in the five crashes...
...contributing to global warming by flying to New York, according to British news reports. Referencing the criticism, Charles opened his speech by joking, “I must warn you that I am in fact a video recording. I have only made a ‘virtual’ flight across the Atlantic and am ‘virtually’ half-dead and only ‘virtually’ royal.” The director of the Medical School center that presented the award, Eric S. Chivian ’64, later called the environmentalists’ criticisms...
...first hitch came from the Israelis who, by late Monday, had still not opened Gaza's border with Egypt to allow the delegation of Hamas Prime Minister Haniyeh through to catch their night flight to Mecca. Haniyeh was finally allowed to pass through, and he will be joining Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas leader who has lived in Damascus since the Israelis tried to poison him in Amman in 1997, in talks with President Mahmoud Abbas. Meshaal is considered to be a more radical voice within Hamas than Haniyeh...