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...April showed that only 14% of passengers who had applied for compensation from the airlines had received it. Brian Havel, director of the International Aviation Law Institute, says Congress should take note of the E.U.'s failure and devise a different solution - ideally by providing adequate funds to repair the nation's "antiquated" air traffic control system...
...critic or was there some as yet unspoiled moment when I still had a chance? That headphone business—it’s some shameful stuff, and as I stood there thinking about it in section, I wondered if anything could be done in the way of repair. It’s a tough spot, this graduation business! The moment should be heavy with some hope, or at least hopefulness—some indication that disfigurements have been corrected and some problems solved...
...challenged early and often. And, in turn, it did not win a single game, going 0-6-1 during a torturous start to the season. Although this made the team stronger, especially for next year’s push under new coach Ray Leone, the squad never recovered to repair its broken season. The Crimson finished at 3-13-1 and 2-5-0 in Ivy League play, but this record does not tell the year’s whole story. The team notched key Ivy wins over rivals Cornell and Penn en route to a respectable league finish...
...Harvard’s director of athletics in 1982, the blaze—accidentally set by a straggler who had taken to living in the press box—was just one in the long line of proverbial cries for help from a facility desperately in need of repair...
...that may be starting to change. Long Beach has pioneered the creation of commuter-biking hubs offering valet parking, showers and repair services, and other cities in California and elsewhere in the U.S. are beginning to take note. "The concept is growing fast and helping bike commuting move from an invisible subculture to an organized pursuit that's part of the fabric of everyday urban life," says John Case, a retired real estate financier who brought the Bikestation concept from Europe to Long Beach in 1996. Its popularity prompted public agencies and private groups in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto...