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Last month United Airlines became the first U.S. carrier to offer nonstop service between Washington and Kuwait City. The airline says it's focusing on oil and gas companies that move employees back and forth. United predicts that a third of the plane will be full-fare business passengers, whose high-priced tickets will help subsidize the cheaper leisure fares. Kuwait is also a jumping-off point for U.S. military personnel and government workers going into war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the route is sure to become a "war shuttle," filled with troops, Pentagon officials, contractors, journalists--even...
Billing itself as two hours of nonstop comedy, the lineup of the show included performers from both Harvard and Tufts, and—despite being held the night before the LSATs—it managed to draw close to 150 people to the Science Center, according to the society’s co-founder David W. Ingber...
...encounters, this one won't remain behind closed doors. The entire 10-person commission will brief the President this Wednesday and then repeat the lesson for congressional leaders, both incoming and outgoing, later the same day. What happens next is designed to be even more convincing: several days of nonstop interviews on every media outlet, network and cable-TV station--a media blitz that will run well into the Sunday-morning news programs...
American administrations are instinctively committed to existing lines on the map. But not all breakups are a disaster. Although President Bush's father tried to hold the Soviet Union together, few mourned its ultimate demise. Trying to put back together Iraq, a state that has brought nonstop misery to most of its people for its entire 80-year history and is not desired by a substantial part of its citizens, will only bring about more pain and blood for Americans and Iraqis. If the country's people are to be saved, the only choice is to end Iraq. [This article...
Marcia Johnson, 62, of Wellington, Fla., a married mother of three and a former dancer, received a diagnosis of anorexia a dozen years ago, although she now recognizes that she showed symptoms of it by puberty. Binckley and Johnson note that their nonstop focus on food and body image slowed down when they were cooking meals for their growing children. Then as middle age set in, a sense of loss--a feeling that's particularly acute for anorexics at midlife--set off a flare-up. "The loss of order--brought on by a change in job status, marriage, children...