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MINNEAPOLIS: The Northwest Airlines pilots' strike just got ugly. With all flights canceled through Labor Day and daily losses topping $10 million a day, the airline laid off 27,500 assorted mechanics, flight attendants and customer service employees Wednesday. TIME business bureau chief William Saporito says the pilots helped save Northwest eight years ago when it almost went under -- and now they want their money back...
...Attention Northwest passengers: Midnight EDT is the deadline before the airline's pilots go on strike. In anticipation, Northwest has already canceled 400 flights this weekend. Negotiations, as they say, are proceeding around the clock...
...past few years, pharmaceutical companies have developed highly sensitive urine tests for chlamydia that work equally well for boys and girls. (The previous test required more invasive sampling of the cervix or urethra.) Such tests should permit more extensive screening campaigns. Already, a pilot program in the Pacific Northwest has achieved a dramatic decline, from 9% to 3%, in chlamydia rates among women in family-planning clinics. But the goal should be getting to zero, which means that both men and women need to be tested and treated. Otherwise, they'll just be reinfected...
...nasty ability to mutate and proliferate. Lately it has been proliferating with a vengeance. Five years ago, the fast-food industry was rocked when four children died and 500 other people fell ill after eating E. coli O157-contaminated hamburgers at Jack in the Box restaurants across the Pacific northwest. Massive as that outbreak seemed at the time, it was, for the bacterium, merely a shot across...
...Eaglen, make their double debut in the Seattle Opera's new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. But the prospect of finding a fresh pair of singers capable of tackling Wagner's most vocally demanding roles is only part of what's drawing opera lovers to the Pacific Northwest. This Tristan is being staged by Francesca Zambello, whose penchant for scandalizing stodgy opera buffs with a startling blend of flashy theatrics and unabashed feminism has made her the most controversial opera director of her generation. "Tristan's ship," Zambello explains gleefully, "is a huge ocean liner that has Isolde...