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...British Airways and other British carriers, including Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic, are blaming some of the problems, including more than a thousand canceled flights, on BAA, the airport operator, which they claim wasn't up to the job of handling the big increase in security. "Since 9/11, everyone in the industry has known there might be times when extra security measures needed to be put in place," British Airway chief executive William Walsh said this week. "Yet when the moment struck, BAA had no plan ready to keep Heathrow functioning properly. The queues for security have wound all round...
...input of water - you don't even have to pretest it - and what comes out is pure, distilled water. It meets the U.S. pharmacopoeia standard for water that can be injected. It's astounding. And it takes one-third the power of a handheld dryer to make a thousand liters of water a day, which, based on the World Health Organization's standards, is enough for a village of 100 people. And if you've got a few hundred people, you put a couple of machines...
...designs. And home buyers--motivated by the desire to simplify their lives, use fewer resources and save money--are falling in love with the little things. Gregory Johnson, a co-founder of the Small House Society in Iowa City, Iowa, estimates that anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand homes measuring less than 500 sq. ft. and costing less than $100,000 have been built since his group of 40 architects and builders formed in 2002. Says architect Marianne Cusato, a small-home designer who lives in a 300-sq.-ft. apartment in New York City: "It's human...
...should be feeling safer right now. British officials appear to have foiled a plot to blow up as many as 10 U.S.-bound passenger jets with liquid explosives hidden in carry-on luggage. Another batch of alleged operatives has been discovered and taken out of commission. Several thousand men, women and children did not die ghastly deaths over the Atlantic Ocean. "This," said Republican Congressman Christopher Shays when the arrests of 24 suspects was announced last week, "was a good...
...patronize the xenophobic, backward looking paleo-conservative branch of the party.” This sort of internecine fighting is not exactly unfamiliar to American politics —see Lieberman v. Lamont—but in the U.S. ideological battles take place on an individual level, in a thousand different primary contests. There is never a battle over the “heart” of either party, because, quite simply, neither has a heart. Like the Tin Man, each party wanders about, clucking about the need for initiative and ideas, but never managing to find either...