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...attempt to skip the usual 30 minute wait. Adds Alex S. Grodd ‘04, “It went from being disgusting and unsafe to decent. But now that it’s decent, it’s too crowded, so you have to go at off-peak hours...
...takes from the Fed, the long-awaited upturn in the business cycle that was due to come this summer, then this fall, then this winter before Sept. 11 happened. Because Sept. 11 did happen, the dip will be deeper, but the comeback will be quicker. Unemployment will peak around, say, 6 percent in the spring, a lagging indicator as always, and by late summertime 2002 the living will be easy all over again...
During the same years, the CIA, intent on seeing a Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, was also funneling money and arms to the mujahedin. Milton Bearden, who ran the covert program during its peak years--1986 to 1989--says the CIA had no direct dealings with bin Laden. But U.S. officials acknowledge that some of the aid probably ended up with bin Laden's group anyway...
...increasing the use of armed, undercover air marshals on domestic flights, an action that nearly 80% of Americans support, according to a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week. Now fewer than 100 federal air marshals randomly travel on a very select number of domestic and international routes, down from a peak of more than 1,000 in the early 1970s, before concerns about airborne shoot-outs effectively sank the program. Some pilots are suggesting that an even better deterrent would be to have a uniformed security officer in the jump seat next to the cockpit...
...Janeiro is the city in Brazil that people all over the world know. They know the cathedrals and the samba clubs, the curved white strip of Copacabana beach, the spread-armed statue of Cristo Redentor on the peak of Corcovado mountain. Sao Paulo, on the other hand, is the city that foreigners don't know. They don't know that it is in many ways Brazil's musical center, accounting for 57% of record sales in the country, vs. 13% for Rio. They don't know that, with a population of 17 million, it is not only far larger than...