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...Okinawa costs a Tokyo couple about as much as a hop to Hawaii. For $342, a Parisian can choose either a 1 1/2-hour flight to Corsica or an eight-hour trip to New York on planes chartered by the French tour operator Nouvelles Frontieres. And now that a pound buys $1.87 (up from $1.04 in 1985), Britons are taking advantage of package deals such as a Virgin Atlantic Airways offer that takes them to New York on a Thursday, deposits them in a hotel for three nights and gets them back, bleary-eyed, to London's Gatwick Airport...
Environmentalists and engineers know that hydrogen would make a better jet fuel than the standard aviation kerosene. In its liquid form, hydrogen packs more energy per pound than any other non-nuclear fuel and, burning, produces a plume of H2O. But there are major drawbacks, including cost. Extracting hydrogen from water or natural gas and cooling it to -423 degrees F make the fuel many times more expensive than kerosene, which goes for about...
After the protesters moved their demonstration from Vorenberg's office to the doors of yesterday's faculty meeting at Pound Hall, Wilkins and two other BLSA representatives spoke to the professors for about a half-hour. According to Bell, who was at the meeting, the students were applauded for their arguments...
...rally reached completion, the protesters joined hands and chanted in unison: "The people, united, will never be defeated!" and continued chanting as they marched around Pound Hall and returned to Harkness Commons...
...fancy dinners. They get a greater voice in making policy. In short they get more attention. Unfortunately such stroking is needed to keep a modern university running. But Harvard can get by without $50,000 from its most recent graduates. Instead of breeding young fundraising zealots, whose hearts will pound 25 years from now at the sight of green grass, perhaps the University should try to instill some unity among all the diversity...