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...Summer is supposed to be salad days for airlines. It's when the kids are out of school, mom and dad slow down at work, and everybody heads for the hills, or the beach, or even overseas - on a plane. Over the last few summers, airlines have seen their 'load factors' - the industry term for how much of the plane is packed with passengers - soar to near 90 per cent. With new measures in hand to prevent overloading the air traffic system, and given how well the carriers seemed to have handled this Memorial Day holiday (You didn't even...
...year will open clinics in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. "There is no doubt that cosmetic surgery is growing in popularity," says Giulio Injianni, secretary of the German Association of Plastic Surgeons. "People are more confident about this kind of medicine because of media exposure." He says his own patient load has doubled in the past five years...
...they understand the implications of violence and how to use violent weapons. It is absurd to argue that a modern child, who sees the effect of violence around him in the news every day, doesn?t understand what killing really is. The fact that child killers know how to load and shoot a gun is an indicator that they understand exactly what they?re doing...
...Although Washington hawks grumbled when Colin Powell went out canvassing for the proposals during a tour of the Middle East in February, the Secretary of State was always going to prevail on the question of lightening the load on Baghdad because the U.S. and Britain had become isolated on Iraq policy and the sanctions regime was in a state of collapse. Rather than a new U.N. resolution on Iraq - which would be impossible to pass given the level of division in the Security Council over Iraq - the proposals are designed to streamline and alter the requirements of the existing sanctions...
...Palestinian attacks have been ignored, even flouted, by his followers. Arafat may be politically unable to embrace a cease-fire if its terms make the sacrifices his intifada has demanded of ordinary Palestinians over the past eight months seem worthless. And while the Israelis constantly promise to ease the load on ordinary Palestinians and isolate the militants, such promises have meant very little on the ground, where poverty, rage and despair continues to drive Palestinians into the arms of Hamas, Hizballah and other forces more radical than Arafat...