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...rule may soon become a relic of the past. Last week a group of twelve pilots asked the Supreme Court to review their challenge of the Age 60 regulation in which they ask for waivers to the rule. On Capitol Hill, influential Congressman John Mica, a Florida Republican who heads the House aviation subcommittee, says he will hold hearings on the topic. Even the ALPA is considering reviewing its stance...
...possibility that the supposed illicit casting may have altered the skull so no exact record of it can now be made. "It's simply outrageous," says Peter Brown, the palaeontologist attached to the Morwood team. "It's commercial and intellectual property, and it's a unique cultural relic...
...take decades, but until Americans realize that life in prison is the most just punishment for heinous crimes, all of our citizens are living under a cloud of blame. The state was born in an environment of tyranny, repression, exploitation, and bloodshed, and America still has not dropped one relic of this murky past. Where the rack, the ownership of persons, genocide, and the strategic killing of civilian populations have all been abandoned as means towards achieving the ends of the state, the death penalty remains...
...seems no relic associated with ELVIS PRESLEY is too trivial to fetch a bundle. A North Carolina man last week collected $455 by auctioning three tablespoons of water he claims once occupied a cup from which Elvis drank while performing. Wade Jones says that after an Elvis concert he attended in 1977, he was given the cup by a security guard. For decades he preserved the liquid in a sealed glass vial, but after seeing a grilled cheese sandwich ostensibly bearing an image of the Virgin Mary garner $28,000 on eBay, he decided to part with the holy Elvis...
Maybe not. The story has a sucker punch, which reveals both the importance of family and the ways loyalty can trump official morality. Like Frankie, the film is a tough creature with a heart. Like Eastwood, it's a relic that dazzles you with its footwork, daring and class. --By Richard Corliss...