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Despite the focus on cost, JetBlue has expenses that most other airlines have rejected. It has configured its planes with emergency equipment such as life rafts and beacons for flying over water, thus allowing its flights to swing out over the ocean to avoid congestion on crowded East Coast routes. It has worked closely with controllers to "tunnel" to its upstate New York destinations. That means flying at 10,000 ft., rather than the usual altitudes above 18,000 ft., which enables JetBlue to avoid traffic jams in the air lanes. "It costs us about $400 more per flight," says...
Never mind those world leaders meeting in Genoa. The globe's most potent ambassadors are often its traveling rock stars. With Madonna launching the U.S. portion of her Drowned World tour after a five-city European swing, Notebook looks at how rock's headliners are promoting--and pummeling--international harmony...
...wreck. Now 17 and recovered, he is the family's living hope for Jessie's recovery. Friends who know Jessie talk about a tough kid, one who can hold his own in debates with grownups about the sun and stars, but who is happy to shoot squirt guns and swing from oak trees. When he got a finger stuck in a hole in the school bus two years ago, he remained calm as firefighters cut away the bus to free...
...runs for cover in the roadside stalls where her mother usually buys the family's daily bread. She finds herself crouching next to laborer Mohammed Yusuf Gania and two other men, including Gul Mohammed Gania, a mason. Gul picks up Nadiya and the group runs inside a shop. They swing the shutters down and huddle in a corner. But then Nadiya begins crying. Outside, soldiers hear her. "They're in there," the soldiers shout, demanding the occupants open the store's shutters. Gul and Yusuf shout back that they aren't militants. Yusuf says he is going...
DONALD RUMSFELD Swing and a hit. Fourth Star Wars test a success. Program's batting average...