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AIRLINES. By decontrolling routes, the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 enabled dozens of new airlines to enter the business. The number of carriers authorized to fly planes with 60 seats or more increased from 36 in 1978 to a peak of 123 in 1984; there are now 74. The legislation decontrolled prices at the same time, which sparked the fare wars that have saved consumers some $6 billion annually. Today's U.S. airline tickets are estimated to be nearly 40% cheaper than they would have been without deregulation. Airline travel has thus become far more popular, rising from 255 million...
...incandescent canvases were as much a part of the psychedelic '60s as Beatles music. Then, at the peak of his popularity in 1970, Artist Peter Max vanished from the international art scene and devoted the next 16 years to painterly experimentation and travel. But now Max is back. At Manhattan's Jack gallery last week, the Berlin-born artist opened a show of 30 gaily colored paintings and graphics under the rubric "Peter Max Celebrates America." Cheap the artist is not: his works on various patriotic themes are selling for anywhere from...
...practice with the best girls. She was the best girl." Smiles come easily to Boris Becker, especially when the discussion includes Wimbledon. But he glows like a pumpkin at the recollection of those early rallies with Steffi Graf. Now they are both on the last ledge before the peak. "Two kids," he says, "from the same area, who practiced together at twelve . . . ten . . . eight. Isn't it a little incredible...
...Scientists are puzzled by the unusual pattern of light 1987A is emitting. Said Garrison: "This is not like any supernova we've yet seen." Generally, light from supernovas is expected to peak quickly and then decline. But 1987A's brightness rose, then leveled off, then increased again, peaking around May 22, when it was easily visible to the naked eye. Since then it has been gradually dimming. One possible explanation was proposed by Astronomer Stan Woosley of the University of California at Santa Cruz. He suggests that the decay of radioactive elements within 1987A's cloud of debris...
Most of the IBA buildings were designed between 1979 and 1984, at the peak of international postmodern fervor. Rather than returning to neoclassical forms, as postmodernism has generally meant in the U.S., the IBA architects have tended to borrow from the early 20th century avant-garde. Aside from Kleihues, Rob Krier is probably more responsible for the results than any other architect. He was master planner for three important IBA blocks. While none of Krier's IBA architecture is great, all of it is good. His best is the main building (of nine) of a rather formal housing estate near...