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...Delayed Reaction German carrier Lufthansa said it was considering suing authorities for air-traffic disruption caused by the arrival of George W. Bush at Frankfurt Airport last week. The airline claimed the hub was affected for twice as long as originally planned...
When Ami Dar first started using the Internet in 1993, he had a narcissistic reaction. "I thought, Someone has invented something just for me," recalls Dar, founder of Action Without Borders. The selfishness, however, was in service only to the most charitable of pursuits. The Israeli-born Dar, 44, had been looking for a way to connect nonprofit organizations from around the globe to volunteers eager to donate their time. "I was obsessed with the notion that you have a world rife with problems," says Dar, "but you also have ideas and resources and people with free time and good...
...went to my grandmother, and her reaction was, "Isn't that a man's job?" And that's what really solidified it. I had two people tell me I wasn't intelligent enough, which I couldn't understand because I was a straight-A student, and now I had someone else tell me that it was a man's job. So I was bound and determined to prove everyone wrong. And I did. In 1978, I graduated from Purdue University in three years with a B+ average and a degree in civil engineering...
...paid" to China's increasing military capabilities.) The joint declaration with the U.S. over Taiwan, says Terumasa Nakanishi, professor of international politics at Kyoto University, "is a warning to Beijing ... that military action toward Taiwan is the one line China cannot cross. Japan cannot back down." Beijing's reaction to the communiqu? was appropriately icy: it considers Taiwan a renegade province and reunification (at some future time) is carved-in-marble national policy. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan warned that "any irresponsible remarks on China's efforts to enhance national defense aimed at safeguarding its national security and territorial...
...women say that HUPD issues alerts too infrequently and too late. But each incident requires a different reaction, says Catalano, who issues the alerts. The third incident in September and the last in December occurred just days or weeks after alerts had been sent...