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...requesting autonomy proved just the thing, and Dr. Death walked once again. As Fieger put it two weekends ago in the court of Andy Rooney (where maybe all future trials should be held), "Government has no business telling you when you have to"--and here the transcript indicates a slight pause, as if the speaker were choosing among possibilities. Has the government the right to tell anyone anything these days?--"telling you how much you have to suffer before...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The amount of ozone-depleting chemicals in the atmosphere fell for the first time in 1995, according to report to be published Friday in the journal Science. Ground-level measurements several sites worldwide reveal a very slight drop in the presence of chloroflurocarbons and other ozone-depleting atmospheric compounds containing chlorine and bromine. The ground-level decline could lead to a recovery of upper atmosphere ozone levels within a few years when the cleaner air has circulated into the stratosphere. TIME senior science writer Michael Lemonick says the trend is a direct result of international agreements like...
...organization received less than it was awarded the previous year and our new programs received funds. In fact, the total amount distributed for 1996-97 from the President's Public Service Fund (PPSF) represented a slight increase over...
...moral appeal, however, the Kansas City plan's achievements appear modest when weighed against its enormous expense. The number of out-of-district white children enrolled at the magnet schools peaked at 1,476 last year. Standardized test scores have registered slight gains. White flight, while substantially slowed, has not been reversed: in 1985, the year before the magnet plan began, the district was 73.6% minority; this year it is 75.9% minority. If nothing else, horrible school facilities have been replaced with nice new ones, and for some that is justification enough. "I bet a lot of kids in Kansas...
Surprisingly, this sort of penurious ingenuity yields only a slight edge over the majors, who have been frantically cutting costs as well. Using a basic industry yardstick--operating expense per seat, per mile flown--analyst Engel figures that last year American, Delta and United averaged 8.76[cents] a mile; the upstarts averaged 7.64[cents...