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...would have had to charge passengers to use it. "Nobody cares if it's not free," says Neeleman. "It's so irritating to go into a hot spot and have to pay." JetBlue and other airlines learned that lesson with seat-back phones. That service was discontinued because of lack of interest from passengers unwilling to pay several dollars for one in-flight phone call. The ground-to-air spectrum used for those in-flight calls came up for bid in July 2006, and JetBlue's subsidiary, LiveTV, purchased a slice from the Federal Communications Commissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BlackBerrys on a Plane | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...Advisers cannot effectively counsel undergraduates on their plans of study if concentration requirements are restructured just weeks before the deadline to declare. While some students had heard rumors from their advisers or others that this decision may have been on the horizon, many were caught entirely off guard. The lack of communication between administrators in the economics and psychology departments, advisers, and students demonstrates a systematic failure within the advising system. Nevertheless, we believe administrators in these two departments acted with the best intentions when pressing for this change. Previously, joint concentrators would have been required to write a thesis...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Joint Consternation | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...face and choked by a boy at her Cherry Hill middle school who called her a terrorist, her family says. Local police are investigating, and the girl has gone to Jordan with her mother. The family's store, along with the Tatars' pizzeria, has closed down because of lack of business, and the Shnewers have put their house up for sale. The Duka brothers' father was detained on immigration charges the day his sons were arrested; now he faces deportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Dix Conspiracy | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...Obama, who spent much of the fall batting back attacks on his experience, seems to have benefited from quality time with Iowa voters. Nationally, his perceived lack of experience shows up in significantly less support among Democrats most concerned about national security. But this gap virtually disappears in Iowa, where voters have heard him talk about his childhood in Indonesia and field foreign policy questions at length. As for New Hampshire, the same pattern holds: Voters have warmed to Obama and cooled to Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How American Voters Decide | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...that would have required some other President. This President appears to lack the desire, creativity and patience to engage in the most important diplomacy that a nation can face - with its enemies - over issues that could mean the difference between war and peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Nukes: Now They Tell Us? | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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