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...African Americans and anniversaries of the founding of many black institutions. Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Class of 1890 (the first African American to gain a doctorate from Harvard), Langston Hughes and Eubie Blake were born this month; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the first Pan-African Congress were also founded in February...
...last-minute change, the Department of Transportation decided to "bag match" only on originating flights, not on the second or third leg of a continuing flight. The airline industry has resisted adopting the policy widely, saying it would worsen delays. But proponents point to the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988: it was placed by a ramp worker in Malta and on two connecting flights was never matched to a passenger. Congressman Jim Oberstar called the bag-match loophole "the Achilles' heel in the security system." A rule scheduled to take effect in December would require...
...clear that the age of vaccines was proclaimed over much too soon. Some of the new inoculations now under development won't pan out, of course. But doctors have learned their lesson, and if history is any guide, it's a happy one: any statement about the limits of vaccinations has a good chance of being proved wrong--and sooner than anyone expects...
Even by the dull standards of home videos, the tape is notably unexciting: a shaky, amateurish pan along a typically busy Singapore street, with views of a subway station and passing commuters. A bland voice provides a running commentary in well-educated English, a litany of street names and building numbers. But then comes a chilling remark: as the camera zooms in on a parking area, the narrator advises his viewers to "notice some of the boxes placed on the motorcycles, these are the same type of boxes that we intend to use"?to plant a bomb. The narrator describes...
...coming to terms with the fact that he is possibly the only man alive over the age of 50 who is still allowed to wear denim jeans and a leather jacket, bed supermodels and sing about it in front of thousands of people. That is to say, Peter Pan starts to grow up, and, horror of horrors, perhaps even mature. But don’t expect Jagger to do so quietly and tamely: on “Too Far Gone,” he warns, “Always hate nostalgia/Living in the past/No use getting misty-eyed...