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...only one aisle and can carry up to 192 passengers in a two class configuration. It is also a twin engine plane, and would also be fully loaded with fuel for its cross country trip, carrying some 11,000 gallons of jet fuel. The 'seven-five' as aviation pros call the plane (Boeings are often referred to by a 7 and the next number, a 'seven-three' for a 737, a 'seven-four' or a 747, and so on) was also being used this morning by American on Flight 77, out of Washington's Dulles International Airport...
...industry of developing major league players for the U.S. market. But in America, the land of opportunity, perhaps no institution tries to speak more eloquently of getting a chance than Little League Baseball. Girls and boys who won't be good enough for high school ball, never mind the pros, have their turn at bat and also the opportunity to build friendships, learn teamwork, grow. The Danny Almonte case is a contravention of opportunity. What Felipe wanted most, it seems, was a chance for his son to play big-league baseball, and to seize this opportunity, he deprived...
...traders knew that too? With some party-pooping help from existing home sales, which fell off 3 percent in July, on Monday the Dow and NASDAQ made moves you could count on one hand, and volume was so thin as to cause some to wonder whether all the pros who had bought into Friday's run-up had, via cell phone from the Hamptons, been fired...
Many ordinary-folk consumers regard all of these cyberspace reviewers fraternally, as ordinary-folk consumer guides. The pros can seem too enthusiastic about mainstream product. Or maybe not enthusiastic enough--too removed from the workaday world of folks who pay for their own movie tickets or CDs. Browsers at Amazon or Epinions, who can vote on the usefulness of any review, have made minor celebrities of some regular reviewers, at least at those websites. Even JoeytheFilmGeek has registered more than 11,675 hits. "It's that community I like; you're sharing ideas with all kinds of people across...
...folks in front of us are Southern and could have stepped right out of a Marlboro ad; they heckle like pros, and poor Anaheim outfielder Tim Salmon is in just the right spot to hear them talk about his mama. The guys on either side of me decide to join in. “Hey, Salmon, your mom called!” they bellow in unison. “She said you suck...