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...traveler who has flown recently need not be told that air travel can be rough. With airlines systematically eliminating the niceties that once made flying bearable - free checked luggage, in-flight meals, complimentary headsets, the entire can of soda - it's only gotten rougher...
...stand for this violence that's taking our young people," and bearing black-and-red placards reading "Stop. Killing. People." The city's murder rate has climbed 13% so far this year. As pressure mounted on city authorities, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich declared that crime in Chicago had gotten "out of control" - the city of 3 million has a gang population officially estimated at 70,000 - and offered to send state troopers into its most crime-ridden neighborhoods...
...people at greater risk for dementia and Alzheimer's down the line. Either way, says Hakansson, the results suggest that "if you are looking for interventions to prevent Alzheimer's, one way may be to identify people who have been divorced or widowed, and who haven't adapted or gotten back into the social circle, and give them support with the aim of giving them new structure and social networks in their lives...
...substance that is the basic building block of life as we know it - without it, our planet might be little more than a dull rock - carbon has gotten a bad rap lately. Bound to two atoms of oxygen, it creates carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas that has kept our planet warm for billions of years - and is now, thanks to human activity, making us too warm. When we think of carbon, the first word we associate with it is emissions, a concept that evokes a tinge of illegality, as if emitting a mere molecule of CO2 were a crime...
...Iraqi police report identified the three "charred" bodies inside the car as Hafedh Aboud Mehdi, Youssef and Ahmed. If the trio had in fact been armed, says an Interior Ministry official, it would have been the first time ever that an Iraqi had gotten a weapon through all the checkpoints to try to carry out an attack on that stretch of road. The contention over what happened - with the Iraqi accounts at odds with the initial U.S. report - had overtones of other controversial episodes, including the 2005 events in Haditha...