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...Crimson a working lead on Saturday, but the team’s penalty struggles forced it to play shorthanded for 14 minutes. Richter’s strong play in goal, however, has anchored the second-best penalty kill (.958) in the country. “We won the special-teams battle, and our goaltender was superb,” Donato said. “Those two things combined for a win.” But the goalie gives most of the credit to his defensemen for their efforts. “They’re helping...
...city's network of power lines. There's no interference because electrical current and digital 1s and 0s run at different frequencies. Manassas uses a fiber-optic network to carry data from its central Internet servers to the medium-voltage lines that run underground or overhead along residential streets. Special hardware clamped to every transformer helps the Internet signal jump to the low-voltage lines that disappear inside individual homes...
...feeling the pinch. Airline analysts and executives expect budget carriers to drag down fares throughout Asia. Both Singapore Airlines and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, Asia's premier airlines, deny they are cutting prices in response to this new threat. But they have been offering what they call routine special promotions. In May Cathay Pacific sold round trips between Hong Kong and Singapore for $128even less than the $160 fare offered by Singapore-based low-cost carrier Valuair, which started flying that same month. Major airlines "have been advertising prices even lower than ours," says Lim Chin Beng, Valuair...
What makes the budget carriers such ornery opponents is their relentless cost cutting. Fernandes, who has dreamed up all kinds of ways to save money, claims AirAsia is the world's lowest-cost airline. He pays his flight attendants to clean planes instead of hiring special crews, which not only lowers costs but also chops the time spent boarding at terminals to 25 minutes--about half that of the major airlines. His pilots are trained to land at a farther point on the runway and at a slower speed to conserve fuel and reduce wear and tear on tires. Half...
...mental hospitals in Serbia. It underscores a long list of serious human rights abuses by citing concrete examples. "I looked at the crib and saw a child who looked to be seven or eight years old," a MDRI investigator said, recalling a visit to the so-called Special Institution for Children and Youth in the southeast Serbian village of Stamnica. "The nurse told me he was 21 and had been at the institution for eleven years ... He has never been taken out of the crib in eleven years...