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...Arbil, with three Vienna flights a week scheduled to start sometime this year. That's just the start. A sprawling $200 million airport is being built on the existing grounds and is scheduled to open next year. Its 4.8-km runway will be wide enough to land the new Airbus 380 - or, for that matter, the space shuttle, boasts Zaid Zwain, Kurdistan's director of civil aviation. "Imagine, people used to fear the sound of jets because of the bombing," he says, standing on the vast, still unpaved runway. Indeed, the sensation of not being in Iraq...
...Scientists have discovered a fossil of a 375 million-year-old fish with a reptilian jaw and a swiveling neck that they say is a long-sought missing link between fish and walking land creatures. Disturbingly, they found it in a Red Lobster fried-seafood platter." TINA...
...familiarity with Boston’s construction procedures matched Harvard’s needs in Allston.Before it can develop more of its Allston property, the University will have to receive approval from Boston for an institutional master plan, laying out its long-term intentions for the land.“[Logan redevelopment] was specifically dealing with the city of Boston and this is Boston again so he knows the ropes,” says Geltner.In 2002, contractors filed a lawsuit against Massport, alleging that Massport was responsible for costly delays in the ‘Little...
...Windsors, she would have been invisible without them. The lonely youngest daughter of divorced parents, she translated her own pain not into bitterness and withdrawal but into a genuine desire to comfort the suffering of others--people afflicted with AIDS and leprosy and breast cancer, the mutilated victims of land mines. She could have done far worse with her fortune and acquired fame...
...bears down on Pea Level, a country house in Wetumpka, Ala., so named because it sits on a plot of wooded land at the ideal height for growing peas. The yellow ranch house once belonged to the late Clifford J. and Virginia F. Durr, he a white civil rights attorney who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail, she one of the few white organizers of the subsequent bus boycott...