Word: followance
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...Budget European carrier Ryanair promises to follow through, within two years, on its threat to charge travelers to use onboard toilets. That luxury will cost you 1 pound ($1.60). The airline will also eliminate airport check-in desks, instead charging passengers 5 pounds ($8) to self-check in online. Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary considered asking passengers also to load their own luggage, but security officials say that's impractical, logistically speaking...
...game, four years in the making, is set in beautiful Sunset Valley, a town that has 67 simulated human residents. They are fascinatingly complex and have lives of their own; you can follow them around or spy on them in their homes. All the residents age at the same rate as your character (a rate you can change to speed up the game). You can fall in love with the girl next door and marry her 10 years later. In previous versions, characters' ages were frozen in time unless you were interacting with them...
...international community struck the usual poses that follow Pyongyang's periodic outrages. President Barack Obama said in a statement that the test would "serve to deepen North Korea's isolation." Japan said it would "not tolerate" such actions and called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, a demand South Korea backed. Russia expressed "serious concern." Even the Chinese, North Korea's alleged ally, said they were "firmly opposed" to the test...
...Army field manual, updated in 2006, lists 19 interrogation techniques, ranging from offering "real or emotional reward" for truthful answers to repeating questions again and again "until the source becomes so thoroughly bored with the procedure, he answers questions fully and candidly." (Obama has ordered the CIA to follow the Army manual until a review of its interrogation policies has been completed...
...people and forcing 500,000 to seek refuge in shelters and on rooftops to escape rising floodwaters. The death toll is expected to increase as rescue workers gain access to more isolated areas. Low-lying Bangladesh is regularly gutted by cyclones in the spring and fall, which precede and follow its monsoon season. Aila also hit Sundarbans, a mangrove forest on the India-Bangladesh border that shelters endangered royal Bengal tigers--some of which have also been stranded by the waters...