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...February disaster might have sped up that evolution. JetBlue has recovered somewhat, but there's plenty of room for improvement. JetBlue's on-time performance in March was 63.6% according to the Department of Transportation. That's second worst in the industry, and it flat out stinks. (US Airways is first, but you probably guessed.) The on-time rate improved marginally to 64.8% in April. More disconcertingly, while JetBlue increased traffic 11.6% in April, its capacity, the number of seats available, increased 12.8%. This is not progress...
...life expectancy for Japanese men is 78.56 years, the fourth-longest in the world. But Mitsuru Okamura sped past that age long ago, and if you listen he'll tell you his secret: alcohol. "I enjoy drinking," says Okamura, who still has the posture of the middle school principal he once was. "Shochu, whatever. If it's alcoholic, I'll drink it." It appears to be working: At 90, the bantam-sized Okamura is still fit for his age and trim everywhere but in the ear lobes. While the other residents in the Yairo-en Special Nursing Home's gleaming...
...full flame. Just 22, and in his rookie season in Formula One, Hamilton - the first black driver in auto racing's blue-ribbon championship - is tied for the lead in the drivers' standings. Following a third-place finish during the season opener in Australia last month, Hamilton sped to second place in Malaysia three weeks later. And by placing second in the Bahrain Grand Prix on April 15, he became the only driver ever to make the podium in his first three races...
...Waltz for My Grandson,” Palmieri left the piano to conduct the work. It was a little ditty moving slowly at first that peaked at its magnificent end. The whole work sped up, the beat solidified, and Palmieri jumped back on the piano for a rousing finish...
...momentous is a measure of just how far apart the neighbors have drifted. They still face a host of problems, from disputed borders to deep-seated animosity over the memory of World War II. Take security. Abe has upgraded Japan's Defense Agency to a Cabinet-level ministry, sped deployment of American ballistic missile-defense systems on Japanese soil, and is pushing for a revision of the country's pacifist constitution. Last month, after Japan signed a defense agreement with Australia, Abe spoke of the two democracies' "shared destiny." And given Japan's flirtations with another powerful Asian democracy (India...