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...there's no denying that they're already pretty bad. On Friday, an FAA computer glitch caused massive delays and cancellations for hundreds of planes up and down the East Coast. This came just four days after the Department of Transportation announced that airline delays are at their highest level since 1996, when the government started tracking the numbers. During the first four months of 2007, 27.6% of flights on U.S. carriers were delayed by more than 15 minutes or canceled. That news only confirmed what people already knew after the industry suffered terrible publicity on Valentine's Day, when...
Hoxby, a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' highest governing body, the Faculty Council, and one of the few critics of Summers in the Economics Department, said at the time that the academic environment at Harvard—not the president's remarks—would influence her decision to stay or leave...
...study also finds that rates are highest among sex workers, IV drug users and men who have sex with men - a pattern more similar to that of the U.S. than that of Africa, where the disease has spread from the fringes into mainstream society. "The fear is that with high rates in certain groups that will still happen here," says Alexander. "My big concern is that a complex epidemic is being reduced to a soundbite...
...comment, holds a 34-27 career mark, compared to the 239 career wins of Graham. He compiled 15 of those wins during a highly successful 2005-06 campaign in which the Crimson was ranked as high as No. 9 in the nation. In comparison, Temple’s highest ranking under Green was No. 85 in the country...
...even in the highest-level delegations, there were skeptics. "They should just hold the whole thing over secure video-conference and make it every other year," said one White House aide Thursday morning. "There's a whole industry now surrounding the G-8, and two weeks from now, when it's all over here, they're going to start again for next year. In my opinion, they'd be better off sending the money to Africa...