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...press a button in your car and link up to a satellite-based guidance system, but you can't do that in a $100 million aircraft. The FAA has scores of time-saving proposals, such as data-link communications and airspace redesign, but it is slogging through the years-long approval process. Congress has for the first time provided significant money, and FAA Administrator Jane Garvey has lighted a fire under the agency, but technological improvements should come much faster. The airline industry isn't breathing down the FAA's neck to get global-positioning systems installed, in part because...
...month-old company, which joins second-generation dotcom travel sites like QIXO and Farechase in a challenge to such powerhouses as Travelocity, Expedia and Priceline. Sidestep's edge is that, in addition to finding low fares for consumers, it offers airlines the prospect of removing an expensive link or two from the travel reservation chain--namely, the so-called global distribution systems, like Sabre, that complete about 75% of all travel bookings...
...replacement." When Frankfurt started to grow and became a financial center, it could not replace London--they have different traditions and markets. I think Hong Kong will be Asia's financial hub, but Shanghai will be the financial center of China. Its role will be to link China and the world...
...alike at 60th birthday bash. Apologetic organizers say it was Princess Leia's night off LENI RIEFENSTAHL Creator of Nazi propaganda flick Triumph of the Will plans first release in 45 years. They just don't make totalitarians like they used to Losers ANNE ROBINSON Named "fashion's Weakest Link" by critic Mr. Blackwell and likened to "Harry Potter in drag." That's one brave fashion critic BERNARD BONNET Ex-Governor of Corsica found guilty of arson after ordering the destruction of illegal caf?s. The Guv alleged they were harboring stale p?t? RUSSELL CROWE Chubbed-up "Gladi-eater" is told...
...like to call it, is a remarkably democratic tradition. Whether analyzing the thought of Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, or that of John Muir (founder of the Sierra Club in 1892) or Rachel Carson, the environmental movement in this country is founded on a belief in the link between all human beings and their natural environment. Some of these links, as Carson sought to inform us, are of a direct, "scientific" nature. The chemicals that enter into and damage our environments have similar consequences on our bodies; it makes sense then to pollute less. Some of these relationships...