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...about time: In a report that will come as no surprise to any frequent flyer, the Transportation Department?s inspector general announced that more than one of every four flights last year was delayed, canceled or sent to another airport. And as the incidence of traffic-related problems and complaints has skyrocketed, the airlines and the government have tossed around ideas aimed at easing America's travel woes, including lowering ticket prices on non-peak travel. Most plans focus on the consumer, but a few have made their way into the airlines' realm as well: Mineta is also said...
...more than 50% higher than predictions of just a half-decade ago. That may not seem like much, but consider that it took only a 5?C shift to end the last ice age. Even at the low end, the changes could be problematic enough, with storms getting more frequent and intense, droughts more pronounced, coastal areas ever more severely eroded by rising seas, rainfall scarcer on agricultural land and ecosystems thrown out of balance...
...Public health could suffer. Rising seas would contaminate water supplies with salt. Higher levels of urban ozone, the result of stronger sunlight and warmer temperatures, could worsen respiratory illnesses. More frequent hot spells could lead to a rise in heat-related deaths. Warmer temperatures could widen the range of disease-carrying rodents and bugs, such as mosquitoes and ticks, increasing the incidence of dengue fever, malaria, encephalitis, Lyme disease and other afflictions. Worst of all, this increase in temperatures is happening at a pace that outstrips anything the earth has seen in the past 100 million years. Humans will have...
...Endowment for International Peace. The alarmist catalog would begin with National Missile Defense, move to the worsening relationship with Russia, and take in the harder line on North Korea and Iraq, and finally the tepid support for the E.U.'s ambitions in foreign and security policy. The U.K., a frequent arbiter between the U.S. and the Continent, couldn't close the gap this time. Environment Minister Michael Meacher criticized the U.S. and called global warming "the most dangerous and fearful challenge to humanity over the next 100 years." Even the burgeoning polluter China called the U.S. "irresponsible...
Your report on China's Deputy Minister for Taiwan Affairs, Zhou Mingwei, discussed his recent mission to the U.S. [FREQUENT FLYER, March 12]. But as you noted, in putting forth a new view of China's relations with Taiwan, Zhou is "selling something the customer doesn't want and doesn't need." Indeed, Beijing has nothing to sell that is of interest to the U.S. or Taiwan. There is one thing on the market, however, that all three partners--the U.S., Taiwan and mainland China--are interested in: peace. But peace cannot be achieved without mutual respect in this...