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Ultimately, many airlines would be happy to eliminate tickets altogether. "This is definitely part of a trend to reduce passengers' reliance on travel agents and ticketing," says Julius Maldutis, who follows the airline industry for Salomon Brothers. Valujet, a profitable 16-month-old Atlanta carrier that mostly plies the Southeast, has never issued tickets; travelers get confirmation numbers that they use to pick up boarding passes at airports. Southwest Airlines began offering all passengers the option of ticketless service this month. Even giants like United and Delta are testing similar systems. "As Delta becomes more competitive," says vice president Vincent...
...kids, they seem to adjust to life at Harvard better than some first-years. "I like it," states an unequivocal Basia, age ten. She is particularly happy about having close friends, like Zachary, an eighteen month-old mini-Matherite. Christina Gomez, house tutor and mother of eight-month-old Sofia, claims her daughter "loves having 400 of her closest friends with her constantly. She has these big cute cheeks that always get pinched ." Sofia can often be found having picnics on the floor of the dining hall with her colleague Avery, the eight-month-old son of Dr. Vincent Cryns...
...knees, hands and feet. Naked and bleeding, he was taken by a passerby to an area hospital. But, one tragedy compounding another, Debbie had been swept out to sea. On Friday police found her body about a mile up the coast. She leaves behind a husband and an 18-month-old...
Serbs allowed two trucks carrying construction materials and firewood to enter Sarajevo today. U.N. officials said that the cooperation, however limited, with international efforts to aid the devastated city signals that a month-old truce in Bosnia is holding. The concession by the Serbs accompanies a general lessening of armed conflicts in the area following the New Year's Eve ceasefire declaration. "We'll see more humanitarian aid entering the city," promised Enrique Aguilar, the chief U.N. civil affairs officer...
...Irish parliament elected a conservative prime minister today, filling a month-old vacuum that threatened to derail the Northern Ireland peace process. John Bruton, leader of the Fine Gael party and the new P.M., is on the record as supporting the peace process that's been underway since September when the Irish Republican Army declared a ceasefire. Still, he has criticized the quick pace with which his predecessor, Albert Reynolds, embraced the IRA. Reynolds lost his seat in a scandal last month over the extradition of an alleged child-abusing Roman Catholic priest. Bruton was elected to head his country...