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...There are lots of solutions out there: more runways; higher prices for flying at rush hour; incentives for airlines to use larger aircraft that take up proportionately less space and time in crowded airports; encouraging, or forcing, use of secondary airports; gagging members of Congress who insist on nonstop, cheap flights from Podunk to Major Metropolis; and even (anti-government types should skip this part) reinstitution by the FAA of slots (that is, landing and takeoff rights) at the most delayed airports...
...famous Hsing-tian Temple hosts an odd collection of closet-sized rooms. Inside, under sterile fluorescent lights, perch several young Japanese women on low wooden stools, patiently waiting to have their fortunes told. Each is spending $60-150 for a session lasting less than a half hour but they insist that the predictions and advice - details on marriage, future children and career advancement - are worth every penny. "The Chinese fortune tellers are more accurate," says one of the Japanese tourists. That's a reputation worth cultivating. According to one fortune teller, a third of his customers are Japanese. "Of course...
...acknowledge it forced Korean, Taiwanese and Filipino women into sex slavery until 1993. Its courts are only now hearing cases of indentured workers from Korea and China, who stand little chance of winning any settlement; in April the Supreme Court rejected Korean forced laborers' pension claims. Mainstream politicians insist that Nanjing Massacre atrocities have been exaggerated. They still justify Japan's World War II aggression as an effort to liberate Asia from European colonization or, in the case of Korea, to aid the country's modernization. "None of this was for Korea," scoffs Lee Jung Hoon, an expert on modern...
...back-burnering. Bush saves face by continuing to insist he can tap the tundra in - enter catchphrase - "an environmentally responsible way," and merely declines to take up the fight in Congress. Remember Social Security privatization...
...epitome of a narcissist, to believe the American people would be interested in his execution like he's this great hero," says Paul Heath, a Veterans Affairs psychologist who was working on the fifth floor of the building McVeigh destroyed with a truck bomb. He, and others like him, insist that executions should remain a private matter between the killers and the relatives - not public spectacles...