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...bold move, Blakey tacked on a request for NextGen funding to the FAA reauthorization bill, which determines the FAA's budget, that Congress must pass by Sept. 30. If Congress does not pass the bill by then, the FAA will stop collecting taxes and would only have enough money to function for two months. But lawmakers and aviation experts agree that NextGen must be funded. When Congress returns to session in September, figuring out how to fund NextGen will be a top priority...
...royalty that SE pays on oil and natural gas pumped from Sakhalin, leaving just crumbs for the islanders. Pensioners live off vegetables they grow themselves, and it's not uncommon to see bundled old women by the side of the street selling carrots, while new SUVs pass them by. And, despite all that natural gas, Sakhaliners still use coal to heat their homes - although the government may transform the island's infrastructure to use gas in the future. "People think Moscow uses the island to squeeze out all of our natural resources," says one Sakhaliner, who works as a driver...
...secret that Europeans know how to party. Countless American college students trek to the old continent every summer equipped with only a backpack as they hop from city to city to booze it up in multi-level nightclubs submerged in the drumming rhythms of techno music and pass out the next day in city caf?...
...exquisite corpse was a parlor game played by the Surrealists, those convention-spurning artists, writers and pranksters who flourished in 1920s Paris. Its objective: to uncover the magic of accident. One person would write the opening of a sentence, fold the paper to conceal part of it, pass it to a companion for continuation, and so on around the table. The first attempt contained the nonsense phrase "exquisite corpse," and the name stuck...
...perform in portable rings, temporary and therefore unprestigious corridas set up in smaller, less affluent towns. "Five years ago," he says, "none of the main stars would fight in a portable ring." With the decline in attendance, he argues, they are now forced to. "[In Spain] young people pass on bullfights...