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...sardine can." Then the spilled fuel caught fire, and the race to get out was on. Of 139 passengers and six crew members on board, 80 people were injured and taken to hospitals. Fifty-one others did not require hospital treatment. Nine are dead -- the first on a major U.S. airline in nearly a year-and-a-half...
Just in time for the summer travel season: higher air fares. Four major carriers -- Continental, American, Northwest and U.S. Airways -- announced a 4 percent hike in their standard domestic leisure rates over the Memorial Day weekend. If, as expected, other carriers follow suit, this third raise for 1999 will zoom fares to an 11 percent increase for the year. It?s a function of classic demand in the midst of a booming economy, says TIME senior economic reporter Bernard Baumohl: "Airlines are experiencing record high traffic by passengers, which has been pumped up by low unemployment, consumer confidence...
...percent of Americans plan to travel to their vacations by air this summer -- a 3 percent increase over last year -- airlines have little incentive to discount. Still, there may be some relief before the year is out. "If past airline patterns hold true, one or two of the major carriers will eventually break with the pack and lower fares to get a competitive edge, prompting the others to follow," says Baumohl. The only question -- whose answer will probably come too late for most vacationers -- is when that will happen. So until further notice, make sure to pack your wallet along...
...N.R.A.'s downhill slide went last week, much as it has gone for months. City after city--nine, with more expected--has filed suit against the firearms industry seeking damages for gun mayhem. Last month, after pouring $3.7 million into the effort, the lobby lost a major battle on a Missouri referendum over allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons. The Littleton tragedy then exposed a rift between the N.R.A. and gunmakers, who were willing to support Clinton proposals like raising the minimum age for buying a gun to 21. After that, the N.R.A. found itself embarrassed when its point...
Across the U.S., education reformers have begun promoting smaller schools as a remedy for the alienation that many students experience when they are tossed into one of the college-size, 2,000-to-4,000-student behemoths often found these days in major cities and their suburbs. Smaller schools not only allow students and teachers to know one another better; they also have less crowding and competition for membership in bands, student councils, sports teams and other extracurricular activities through which students express and define themselves...