Word: spedding
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...envy of many U.S. airports. The system activates a barrier at the entrance to the inside lane around the airport. Only taxis and buses with registered numbers are allowed through. When the men in the green Jeep pulled up, however, they simply tailgated behind a registered car and sped past before the barrier closed...
...Bank and Gaza. The accords were meant to give shape, at last, to that sense of national identity that had been growing since the war and to lead rapidly to a Palestinian state. But for Jews and Arabs alike, Oslo and its aftermath proved to be new disappointments. Israel sped ahead with yet more settlements in the West Bank, and Arafat, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretly signed off on terrorism directed against the Israelis...
...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...