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...drink (legally), the gambling age has received little scrutiny. A search on LexisNexis of the “major papers” for “gambling” and “21” in the past year returned no results that related to the age limit. It seems that while gambling is under scrutiny as a whole, the terms under which it occurs are not. It is ironic and hypocritical that the gambling age in most gambling establishments in the U.S. remains at 21, and of the states with a legal gambling age of 18 at least...
...Boston-New York corridor has been the lack of any smaller airports (such as Hartford, Baltimore, or Providence) that do not charge airlines the exorbitant gate rental fees that Logan, JFK, and virtually all other major national hubs do. Although this fact has forced most discount airlines to limit their services to these smaller airports, JetBlue was able to acquire gates in Logan by drastically reducing internal operating costs. Massachusetts officials would be well-advised to continue encouraging discount airlines like JetBlue to use Logan as their Boston base in the northeast corridor. New York, after all, already represents...
...House Republicans will vote on one issue they almost always agree on: limiting lawsuits. The House is scheduled to vote on bills that limit legal liability for gun manufacturers and restaurants, who are worried about lawsuits by people who say they have become obese through eating fatty foods at their establishments...
Most people don't worry much about such distinctions. With planets, however, it's different--as Tyson discovered. How do you resolve the problem he created? One idea would be to arbitrarily set the lower limit for a planet at about 2,000 km (1,250 miles) in diameter, which would let Pluto remain a planet and make 2003 UB313 one as well, but keep the rest of the riffraff out. "Pluto," says Alan Boss, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and a member of the IAU working group, "has historically been considered a planet...
...Officials expect the final death toll to top 50,000 as rescuers reach more remote mountain villages ? With winter only a few weeks away, relief workers are scrambling to find shelter for the estimated 2 million people made homeless ? Pakistan's healthcare facilities are strained to the limit. Thousands of injured people are without shelter or treatment, and officials fear large outbreaks of disease, particularly measles ? Many roads into the high mountains are wiped out, and heavy rain grounds some relief flights, further slowing efforts to reach survivors...