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Passengers wringing their hands over delayed flights and lost baggage aren't the only problem plaguing airlines. A near collision on the tarmac at Dallas-Fort Worth airport on April 6 punctuated a six-month period that included 15 other runway "incursions" - a spike from eight during the same period the year before. With air traffic controllers having operated for more than 600 days without a new contract from the FAA, morale among them is at an all-time low, and with just 11,100 fully trained professionals serving the entire country - the smallest number in 16 years - a combination...
Awareness of the law, enacted April 15, among L.A.'s 14,000 licensed taco truckers is still low. On April 23, at an East L.A. parking lot where dozens line up every afternoon to clean and restock their trucks, not a single driver had heard of the changes. "It seems like they're doing it very quietly," says Monica Jimenez, whose family has been in the taco truck business for 25 years. "They didn't announce it." Jimenez's family is one of dozens who have spoken to an attorney about challenging the new law on the grounds that...
...date was April 10 - the long-anticipated signing of peace by Joseph Kony, a mysterious rebel leader who was once a Catholic altar boy but, for the last 20 years, has led the Lord's Resistance Army rebels out of hideouts in Congo and Sudan to terrorize northern Uganda. The sense of expectation was tangible as some rebels, dressed in gumboots, tattered combat trousers and dirty T-shirts or soccer strips, emerged, a handful at a time. Were these the advance party? Where would Kony come from? Would he even sign, we all asked ourselves as the officials took their...
...Then, on April 10, as we waited, rebel negotiators appeared, sparking renewed excitement, only to report a hitch. Kony wanted clarification on what form of justice he would have to face should he sign the deal. To most of the people waiting for Kony, the delay of a day didn't seem like such a bad thing after over two decades of war, during which tens of thousands had been killed and some two million displaced. But, retreating to a bush camp - where, thanks to a team of professional caterers airlifted in by the United Nations, we feasted...
...been in training during the failed signing attempt. "The governments of Sudan, the CAR and the DRC - with the assistance of the U.N. - must join forces to secure the safety and release of those kidnapped immediately and bring those responsible to justice," urged pressure group Amnesty International on April...