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...carriers like these are changing the face of U.S. air travel. A few years ago, most airlines offered identical fares and service; once passengers were inside a plane, they could be forgiven for forgetting which line they were flying. Today's travelers have a bewildering abundance of choices about when and where to fly, what service is available en route and how much...
...excellence that would grant sums to schools to help them improve instruction. Senator Ernest Rollings wants $ 14 billion, in part to give certain qualified public school teachers $5,000 raises. Senator John Glenn's $4 billion plan would include loans to math and science majors that would be forgiven for students who go on to teach those subjects...
Whites in Zimbabwe still have not forgiven Nkomo for his elation over the massacre, nor for the subsequent rebel rocket attack on yet another Viscount in 1979, in which 59 passengers and crew died. His only regret, said Nkomo of that incident, was that the principal target of the attack, Rhodesian Defense Chief Peter Walls, was not aboard the flight...
Scientists can peer inside the body and brain, and measure wind speed on Mars. But the chemical reaction between performers onstage and an audience a few feet below defies explanation. If a show works, its flaws are easily forgiven and the faces out front light up with enthusiasm. If it does not, those onstage are subjected to the theatrical world's most terrifying noise: the sound of hundreds of yawns, politely stifled. So perhaps it is best not to spend too long trying to explain the attractions of the musical version of La Cage aux Folles, which opened...
...reasons, most of them delightful, Pete Rose, 42, is forgiven his own preoccupation with statistics and can even get away with saying, "I want to be the first one to go into the Hall unanimously." At the Phillies locker next door, Joe Morgan's eyebrows are dancing. "I hope you don't think you're as good as Willie Mays," he snaps, and Rose grins. Morgan is not the sort who will need to have his career notarized, but Rose takes these things seriously. "I disagree with waiting five years," he says, typically hurried...