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...would make travel safer for the 5,000 to 10,000 infants who board airplanes daily, it could make it more expensive. In many cases, parents will have to purchase an extra ticket for their baby, who currently flies free if seated on an adult's lap. But Air Transport Association President Robert Aaronson speculated that tickets for these tots might be free on underbooked planes or heavily discounted. "If you buckle up your child at 50 m.p.h.," he asked, "why not at 550 m.p.h...
...driver, Lamons, has a 20 minute break between routes. He says he's been driving this bus for five years for Crystal Transport, a company he says he helped found. He drives the Wellesley Senate bus Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, and says "I'd rather do this than...
...hostile Soviet move. "We need at least another year to determine whether the Soviet conventional restructuring is irreversible," argues James Blackwell, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. This can be accomplished by having the Navy buy fast sea-lift ships that could transport U.S.-based soldiers to Europe in a crisis. The Air Force, similarly, should keep a powerful force of attack aircraft that could leap overseas on short notice. In addition, the military should maintain supply depots in Europe . stocked with tanks, artillery and ammunition...
...Navy should continue to play the central role in the global projection of U.S. might, though that should be possible with fewer aircraft carriers plus additional transport ships. It is also time for arms-control talks to be expanded to include reducing naval forces...
...railroad employees in the U.S., a day at work may now include a surprise: being selected for a random drug test. Last week the workers joined more than 650,000 other private-sector employees who during the past month have become subject to new Department of Transportation rules requiring random tests. While many transport workers are already screened before hiring and after accidents, the department hopes its expanded rules will provide an even higher level of deterrence...