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...Controllers should be allowed to adjust safety standards that were set 45 years ago. They could, for example, tighten the distance between jets from the current five miles to, say, 4.5 miles or even less. Controllers say they could make the system much more efficient - and still keep safety first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fix Flight Delays | 2/1/2001 | See Source »

Controllers should be allowed to adjust safety standards that were set 45 years ago. They could, for example, tighten the distance between jets from the current five miles to, say, 4.5 miles or even less. Controllers say they could make the system much more efficient--and still keep safety first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Can Make the Skies Friendlier: Five Steps | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...sobering dose of reality for what had up to that point been a pleasant but purely imaginary endeavor. As I sat slumped in the car on the way home, feeling heretofore unknown muscles in my ass (pivotal for skating, largely unused while sitting at a desk) tighten and cramp, there was no doubt that it was going to be a long haul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is a Warm Gun on a Cold Day | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

...second term, Clinton's EPA moved to tighten clean-air rules, putting particularly tough new restrictions on trucks and coal-burning power plants, but the proposals are still tied up in lawsuits. Clinton has also not achieved as much as he wanted in the fight against global warming. Though Gore led the U.S. delegation that helped forge the Kyoto climate-change treaty in 1997, it was immediately criticized by opponents in the U.S. Senate, where it still needs to be ratified. Perhaps the recent negotiations to fill in the details of the treaty will change the Senate's negative attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Green Was Bill? | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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