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...Prime Minister. Now they are unhappy about what they don'thave: a thriving economy, job security, falling crime rates, ethnic harmony. No wonder a Gallup poll in July found that 54% feel their country is a snobbish, class-ridden society, 75% are convinced that the royal family lead indolent, jet-set lives, and only 3% predict that Britain will remain a world power in the next decade. Such responses may explain why, when asked if they would like to leavethe country, 47% said they would pack their bags before teatime...
...MARS OBSERVER WERE EVER GOING to speak again, it should have spoken to Michael Dean at 2:56 Pacific time last Wednesday afternoon. The 24-year-old flight controller is part of a team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, that had been working day and night for nearly a week to rouse the mysteriously silent spacecraft. Now the only hope left was in the hands of Observer: its onboard computers had been programmed to phone home if the probe hadn't heard from Earth for five days, triggering an electronic blip that would appear...
...agree. But Reitha was unable or unwilling to accept such an end. Loyola doctors put the couple in touch with surgeons at Children's Hospital who had previously operated on 10 sets of conjoined twins. Early last week the babies were flown to Philadelphia in a specially equipped Lear jet...
When the Mississippi River jumped its banks in early July, Witt was eager to get to the scene -- and not by government jet. Described by friends as deeply religious and penny-pinching, Witt shunned the perks of his $136,300 post and flew by commercial plane. Bound for Madison, Wisconsin, via Chicago, Witt missed his connection. Undaunted, he boarded a flight to Milwaukee where, unwilling to pay the $100 taxi fare to Madison, he directed the cabbie to take him to the bus station, where he waited in line to buy a ticket. Cost to taxpayers: $9. Upon boarding...
...fancy food baskets, to Morris Air, a low- budget, no-frills outfit started by former Salt Lake City, Utah, travel agent June Morris, the first female founder of an airline. Other newcomers include Kiwi International, a regional discounter that flies six cozy 727s out of Newark, New Jersey; Private Jet, an Atlanta-based charter service with a fleet of 12 big MD-80s; and Family Airlines of Las Vegas, a start-up backed by 65 former Pan Am pilots. An additional 26 applications from wannabe airlines are pending at the Department of Transportation, and about 14 of these could...