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Designers like that it's robust enough to hold a shape but flexible enough for some acrobatics. And because felt is not woven, the edges don't fray, so a soft object can have a very sharp profile...
...only a few hours per day. But it's also eight miles farther from Manhattan and more expensive to get to, a potential hurdle for low-fare domestic customers. Nonetheless, JetBlue lobbied the Clinton Administration for a remarkable 75 slots (takeoff and landing rights) at J.F.K., enough to allow robust airline growth through 2005. J.F.K. has proved a smart move: when congestion choked La Guardia to a standstill last year, JetBlue launched a marketing campaign that called J.F.K. "New York's most on-time airport...
...Rice said the U.S. wants to avoid being perceived as violating the ABM treaty. And that forms the basis of the Russian game plan. Washington made clear that a robust testing plan for a missile defense system will begin shortly. They won't get into the semantics of when they'll violate the terms of the 1972 treaty, but it's clear that they will. The Russians may be waiting for that phase to begin, and to then denounce the U.S. as the violator of treaties...
...culture of death." And scientists weren't satisfied either. They say the dozen or so existing cell lines (essentially self-replenishing colonies of stem cells) offer too little genetic diversity. Each cell line is subtly different, and researchers have yet to determine which ones will be best. The most robust cell lines may not yet exist. Only when there are a few hundred cell lines, say scientists, will we truly know what stem cells are capable of doing...
...NATO is still hoping that there will be an agreement, and that it will simply have to go in and supervise the implementation of that agreement. But if the fighting continues, presumably they'd have to move to a Plan B - a more robust engagement. NATO has a stake in Macedonia's security. The airport in Skopje is still the main supply and transit route for troops bound for the KFOR peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, and Macedonia remains an important logistical center of that mission. So although they haven't made it public, NATO is already planning a response...