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...annals of aviation. People is slashing most of its fares this week by 30% to 60%. Passengers can fly from the carrier's Newark base to Miami, Fort Lauderdale and other Florida cities for $69, to Los Angeles and San Francisco for $99, to Minneapolis for $49 and to Greensboro or Raleigh, N.C., for $29. By changing planes in Newark, People Express customers can fly from Chicago to Florida or from Boston to Houston for $99. People's biggest bargain of all is a nonstop flight from San Francisco to Brussels...
Though People says that it has raised the percentage of flights that leave and arrive on time from 40% to 65% in the past year, some passengers doubt that figure. On Christmas Eve at Newark, a group of impatient travelers waited nearly three hours to board Flight 197 to Greensboro. At one point, a young man in blue jeans and a Chicago Cubs baseball cap shouted, "I've taken a poll, and everybody here is pissed off at People Express." When told that the plane was finally arriving at the gate, the crowd broke into applause and alleluias. One couple...
...hereditary wealth," paid his bills, but the maverick artist in him rebelled against "this whole literary-academic, semi-fashionable, established accepting-things-at-their-own-valuation world." Privately, he bit the doddering hands that fed him: "The faculty of the college are very much like the city of Greensboro [N.C.]--though this is doing an injustice to several trees which are cleverer than several of this faculty...
...often wonder why more people are not also that way. Has molecular biologist Dean Hamer with his discovery of a God gene, one that inclines a person toward spiritual beliefs, answered that question for me? Is it really in the genes? That makes sense to me. MARGOT ROBINSON Greensboro...
...Following the 2001 demonstrations, about 1,000 Montagnards were resettled in North Carolina, many of them in the city of Greensboro. (The U.S. special forces, whom the Montagnards fought alongside in Vietnam, are based there.) In some ways, these exiles could be viewed as the lucky ones. But of the eight men sitting in a modest Greensboro apartment one morning, seven still have wives in the Highlands and five have relatives in hiding there or in jail. All carry folders of papers listing the names, ages and villages of people they've been told are injured or missing...