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Lisa was so enthralled with her bulletin-board lover that she decided to move on to what WELL users call an F2F -- a face-to-face. She agreed to split the cost of a plane ticket to fly her telephonic paramour to the West Coast. "We had a great weekend," she says, "including fabulous sex." But afterwards her lover turned cold, and the e-mail correspondence dissolved. A heartbroken Lisa grieved on a section of the network called WOW (Women on the WELL) -- where no men are allowed. And that is how she met Beth and Nancy and discovered that...
...Kenya. The World Bank has promised that if the $155 million aid package to develop tourism and protect vital areas produces good results, a similar amount will follow. Leakey believes that the wildlife service can be well managed and attract financing without his leadership -- but not yet. When the plane crashed in June, many of his deputies were out of Kenya, and Leakey was afraid the conservation project would go awry if he left for England...
United, American and Delta may not be cowering at the thought of Classic Air, but the one-plane carrier represents a competitive spirit that is sweeping the entire industry -- and may ultimately threaten the industry leaders. In the biggest burst of entrepreneurial excitement since the boom after deregulation in the early 1980s, it seems that almost everyone with a hankering to start an airline is suddenly preparing for takeoff. Despite an industrywide slump and record losses of $8 billion since 1990, some 15 passenger airlines have begun flying in the past year alone. They range from Reno Air, a full...
Ironically, the industry's troubles have made it easier for new airlines to get into the business. With so many planes available owing to repossessions and canceled orders, fledgling airlines have been able to buy them at bargain- basement prices. Used Boeing 727s that cost up to $40 million new can now be bought or leased for about $2 million a plane. And with so many out-of-work pilots eager to fly, the new carriers have been able to recruit flight crews for less than half the top union scale of $150,000 a year. Says Reno Air president...
...plane which flew over Tercentenary Theatre during the morning graduation exercises trailed a banner reading "NO DICE," the acronym for a student group calling itself "No Dollars Into Clark's Endowment...