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...mayor of Newark, N.J., wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health ... The health-care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark...
...watch it; when he finished his screening, he found his bathroom door inexplicably locked. (He thought the DVD was haunted.) Two weeks ago, Paramount started playing Peli's film at midnight in 16 college towns. Many showings were sold out. Sorry, come back next week, if you dare. No tickets created a hot ticket - the movie grossed $1.2 million in its early, limited engagements - and Paramount stoked the fever by urging fans to go online and "demand" a wider release. More than a million such requests came in, allowing Paramount's website to brag that PA was "the first-ever...
...flights in cramped seats or vanishing luggage - and those of us who haven't have surely endured the horror stories secondhand. If you're grumbling now, consider that airline performance has been above par - if far from stellar - since travel dropped sharply amid the economic downturn and that both ticket prices and congestion are expected to spike when the staycations end and customers return to the skies. A new report from the Brookings Institution puts air-travel trends into perspective. The U.S. air-traffic system relies on 26 metropolitan hubs to ferry nearly 75% of domestic passengers. Twenty of these...
...Lowdown: Three decades after industry deregulation, flying has transformed from a luxury into an egalitarian necessity, with real ticket prices dropping by half and new routes offering exposure to once provincial cities. But the corollary of viability has been increased frustration, with on-time performance plunging to near record lows. As you might have guessed, "there is no silver bullet" to fix the problem, the authors write. But they posit an array of sensible suggestions that could help curb soaring delays. Among the ideas are congestion pricing, airport privatization and high-speed rail systems as an alternative to flights shorter...
According to Alee Lockman ’10, a former vice president of the Harvard Republican Club and current Crimson Design chair who introduced Gingrich at the event, over 1,000 people had lotteried for a ticket to the event, which meant that “even some Democrats were excited to see Mr. Gingrich...