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...Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to soon explode with demand. Ailing airlines of all sizes around the world have come to rely more and more on smaller, lower-maintenance regional jets - instead of clunky turboprops or inefficient larger craft - to connect hub cities with smaller markets. Airline-industry analysts say regional jets are key to many airlines' survival. Both Bombardier and Embraer are gambling big money on ever larger regional jets. New 90-plus-seat models, the Bombardier CRJ900 (rolled out in January) and the Embraer ERJ190 (expected next year), cost each...
...Kirkuk is claimed by some local Kurdish leaders as the "Kurdish Jerusalem," and viewed as the economic and political hub of any future Kurdish entity or state. More immediately, Kurdish officials have reiterated the intention of tens of thousands of Kurds to return to the city after having been driven out under Saddam's policy of "forced Arabization," a program of ethnic cleansing designed to reinforce Baghdad's own claims on the city. But Turkey views Kirkuk as the rightful property of Iraq's tiny Turkman minority, which has close ties to Ankara and whose historic conflict with the Kurds...
...advance of the epidemic in Hong Kong stands in marked contrast to the situation in Singapore, another Asian transportation hub hit by SARS last month. Health authorities in the Lion City have all but declared victory over the disease. Although six people have died?the latest fatality coming April 4?just 26 Singaporeans of 101 who were infected remain in the hospital and the rate of new cases has fallen to about three a day. "It will take at least another week or two to be certain that the epidemic is close to ending," says Dr. Osman David Mansoor...
...block the streets for people going to work but to block the communications systems that are implementing this war." On Saturday Lumsdaine was one of two dozen people who planned to trespass onto the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California, which acts as a weapons-guidance hub for the war. Base commanders threatened "deadly force" against anyone who set foot on the base, a warning that limited turnout. "People want to be part of an action that's very effective, but they also want to have minimal risk," says Lumsdaine. "You can't always have both...
...Unique dishes have been a Singaporean trademark ever since the city-state became a spice-trade hub in the 19th century. This month, gourmets are flocking to the island to taste the multicultural results at the 10th annual Singapore Food Festival, a month-long, mango-themed culinary fair (see www.singaporefoodfestival.com.sg). Singapore's food-obsessed can simultaneously enjoy the World Gourmet Summit, where some of the world's top chefs gather to discuss dining trends and to gossip about who's in and out in the cliquish world of foie gras and shark's fin soup (go to worldgourmetsummit.com...