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...seat versions of bigger planes like the DC-9 or Boeing 737 that are changing the commuter-airline business and causing reverberations among the major airlines. Introduced in the U.S. in 1993 by Comair, a Cincinnati-based carrier and Delta partner, the twin-engine CRJ, made by Montreal's Bombardier, has become the mainstay of Comair's fleet. The CRJ and a rival regional made by Brazil's Embraer are steadily supplanting turbos. They had been stalled only by pilot unions at American Airlines and United Airlines, which have insisted that their members, not lower-paid commuter pilots...
...signed the Montreal Protocol, which restricted the use of ozone-depleting freon and CDCs. The Protocol is the model for this year's conference in Kyoto, he added...
Libya denies that the suspects were its agents and says they had no role in the bombing. It contends that by investigating the case it has fulfilled its obligations under the 1971 Montreal Convention on unlawful acts against aircraft...
...study the brain as puzzling, if not downright ludicrous. Neurobiologists, in particular, will find much to quibble with in How the Mind Works--which is not surprising, since Pinker comes at the subject from an entirely different perspective. The son of a traveling salesman, Pinker grew up in Montreal and attended McGill University, where he became fascinated with the psychology of perception and cognition. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard, then moved a few blocks down Massachusetts Avenue to M.I.T., linguist Chomsky's home base. Chomsky's seminal theory--that humans come into the world fully programmed for grammatical language...
...living thing. Release of murder defendants pending trial was unheard of, but Einhorn's attorney was soon-to-be U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, and bail was set at a staggeringly low $40,000--only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family and met Einhorn through a common interest in the paranormal. It was Einhorn's new rage, and his orbit of friends had expanded to include Uri Geller, the spoon-bending Israeli illusionist...