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• Just hanging around

  BNET - 2009-12-04

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• Under the skin of Beijing Despite rank hypocrisy, and a singularly

  - 2008-08-10

  IT is impossible for the Westerner newly arrived in Beijing to know what emotions lie behind the smiling faces. But if the Chinese are an oppressed people, they certainly know how to hide it. "They're killing us with kindness, " a New Zealand radio reporter observed over the breakfast table....

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• Runway rumblings

  - 2007-12-03

  Heard about a $25 million construction project about to start rolling at the Little Rock National Airport? Supermarine of Arkansas LLC expects to begin turning ground in a serious way on its new fixed-base operation in January. The existing facilities, once home to Omni Air, will give way...

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• T2 set to be runway success

  - 2006-09-03

  DUBLIN airport bosses hope its new terminal will become an international hub when it opens in three years. Airlines are already queuing up to get slots at the giant terminal to take advantage of Ireland's special immigration agreement with the USA. Travellers can cut...

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• What Israeli security could teach us

  - 2006-08-25

  THE SAFEST airline in the world, it is widely agreed, is El Al, Israel's national carrier. The safest airport is Ben Gurion International, in Tel Aviv. No El Al plane has been attacked by terrorists in more than three decades, and no flight leaving Ben Gurion has ever been hijacked....

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• U.S. to fingerprint foreign sailors at ports

  - 2006-03-31

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to collect digital fingerprints of merchant sailors arriving at American ports, believing that will improve security and allow more seafarers to visit the United States, a department official said. Robert A. Mocny, deputy director of the...

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• Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation and Empire

  - 2006-03-01

  David T. Courtwright, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation and Empire, Texas A&M University Press, College Station TX (2005), 284 pp., US$60.00 hardback, $24.95 paperback. The eleventh book in the Centennial of Flight series, Sky as Frontier is an important addition to the accumulating social history of aviation. In this his...

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• Stephens partner plans state-of-the-art FBO at LR Airport

  - 2006-02-20

  IF THE LITTLE ROCK AIRPORT COMMISsion approves on Wednesday, as is expected, here's what you can expect from a new fixed-based operator on the site of Chris Finkbeiner's Omni Air: * A 75,000-SF hangar strictly for Stephens Group Inc. of Little, Rock, which will be a partial owner and...

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• COMPETITIVE POSITION OF HUB AIRPORTS IN THE TRANSATLANTIC MARKET, THE

  - 2006-01-01

  ABSTRACT This article puts forward the argument that the measurement of connectivity in huband-spoke networks has to take into account the quality and quantity of both direct and indirect connections. The NETSCAN model, which has been applied in this study, quantifies indirect connectivity and scales it into a theoretical direct...

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• American airports and Public Access Defibrillation

  - 2004-06-01

  EACH YEAR MORE THAN 340,000 (1) PEOPLE DIE IN THE US from Sudden Cardiac Arrest. The truly sad fact is that many could be saved if quicker access to an Automated External Defibrillator AED were available. (2,3) Sudden Cardiac Arrest SCA can strike anyone at any time, from students or...

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