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...comeback for Douste-Blazy, a medical doctor by training who received withering press at home during his brief stint as Foreign Minister from 2005 to 2007. It's no accident that he's a Frenchman: the French have for several years levied a compulsory tax on airline tickets to help fund development projects and have long sought to get others to join them, with mixed success. Brazil is one of only a few countries to have followed suit. Norway also taxes airline CO2 emissions and uses the receipts for overseas aid. (Read "France Considers a Tax on Carbon Emissions...
...original version of this story misstated that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be receiving money from the new airline-ticket voluntary surcharge to help fund development projects...
...speed element and a maturity element that anybody would love to have on their offense, but he also gives us really good return capabilities,” Murphy says. “He’s an outstanding punt and kick returner, so that’s a big help because those guys are in high demand and short supply...
...experience. Junior wide receiver Tim McManus will again be the top target in the air, coming off a season in which he hauled in 60 catches and earned All-Ivy honors. But the defense, which gave up an abysmal 455 yards a game in 2008, still needs some help...
...coming self-help author in “Love Happens,” Dr. Burke Ryan encounters many unorthodox ways of dealing with grief. A woman bakes her late husband’s favorite oatmeal raisin cookies garnished with his ashes. Another makes a mold of her dead husband’s penis. Unfortunately, these moments of humor in the midst of tragedy are set against a backdrop of an utterly predictable romance. “Love Happens” traces a hackneyed storyline—complete with dramatic slow-clap in the final scene—but ultimately entertains...