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...same language, as he reopened the debate over immigration reform. First he had to reassure conservatives that he's still the sheriff, and so his trip to the Yuma, Ariz., borderlands included a dedication of a new border-patrol station and an inspection of the Predator, an unmanned plane used to track incursions. Deterrence is working, he said; arrests are down 68% here, which must mean people have given up trying...
Like residents of Berlin during the airlift, inhabitants of Arbil--capital of the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq--get a little flutter in their hearts when they see a plane coming in to land. Built after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Arbil's international airport is a symbol to Kurds that their years of isolation as an oppressed ethnic minority are over and that the Kurdish region, unlike the rest of Iraq, is open for business. Passengers flying into Baghdad have to endure a corkscrew landing to avoid possible surface-to-air missiles. But a trip to Arbil...
...global tourism will grow at an average annual rate of 4.1% over the next several years, which means more than a billion tourists a year will be on the move by 2010. And many of them will be economy-minded travelers who often pay less than $100 for a plane ticket and aren't inclined to spend several hundred bucks more for a hotel room. At the same time, large plots of real estate in major cities have become increasingly scarce and expensive, making it less profitable to develop traditional hotels. This puts hoteliers in a bind. With costs rising...
...Normally, by spring we’ve already exhausted the funds that we’ve collected from membership dues,” Special Operations Officer Matthew S. Roller ’08 explains. “At that point in time, the easiest way to purchase plane tickets or hotel rooms is for one member to purchase them all with the understanding that they will be paid back...
Questions have also been raised about the machine’s safety. X-ray exposure is generally considered unhealthy, so if passengers had to receive a hefty dose of them every time they were about to step on a plane, using the SmartCheck would be a blatant violation of civil liberties...