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...outside influences under Roosevelt's lend-lease program. Thanks to visiting teachers and a new American army base in Asmara, Glen Miller gained a lot of fans there. Then in the 60's, JFK's Peace Corps volunteers arrived carrying new vinyl and whole new generation's worth of attitude and beats...
...Barack Obama worth $500 million? The Democratic Party is betting he'll help bring in about that much - if not more...
...live with the $70-per-month fee for all-inclusive data and voice calling - and can get decent coverage with AT&T where you live - it's certainly worth considering. If you're on a budget (and who isn't?), though, you'll find more useful features on less pricey rivals...
...bible may teach that human life is priceless, but in my early years as Inspector General, I heard rumors that a Federal Aviation Administration study assigned a worth to the average passenger who might die in a plane crash. In its cost-benefit analysis, the rumor went, the FAA easily determined that the value of those lives didn't amount to much compared with the hard, cold billions that saving them would cost in aircraft-safety devices, in beefed-up monitoring of planes, pilots and air traffic, and in airports hermetically sealed against bombs and hijacking...
Today most people think that Doppler radar wind-shear-detection systems have been installed in every airport. In fact, only 16 are installed and working. Some $350 million worth of parts for Doppler wind-shear-warning radar (promised after a horrible 1985 crash in Dallas) moldered away when truckloads of equipment went to dusty warehouses instead of to the airports most in need. Other systems are installed but haven't been switched on. Seven of the remaining 47 scheduled for production haven't even been delivered...