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When operations manager Spiros Stefanou learns that a flight coming into Athens International Airport is due in early, he picks up his mobile phone and alerts baggage handlers to scramble a crew quickly. Nothing unusual about that - except that the Cisco-supplied handset that Stefanou and some 100 other airport employees use never touches a mobile network. Instead, it wirelessly taps into the airport's internal network, which transmits the call for free anywhere in the 16-sq-km airport. "It bypasses any mobile or telecom network,'' says Fotis Karonis, the airport's director of information technology and telecommunications...
...written for Jackson in 1952. The memo was titled "A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases," one of which was Brown v. Board of Education, the school-integration case then before the court. The memo noted that "it was not part of the judicial function to thwart public opinion except in extreme cases." And segregation, Rehnquist declared, "quite clearly is not one of those extreme cases ... I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleag[u]es, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed...
...exist in today's politics. The majority of Americans support Roe vs. Wade, the court decision that legalized abortion, and we don't need Bush's circumventing the public's will through his selection of a Supreme Court Justice. Ron Lowe Nevada City, California, U.S. Democrats and Republicans alike, except for extremists on both sides, admired Justice O'Connor's flexibility in the court's contentious decisions. She eschewed rigidity in favor of nuance in each controversial case, and the U.S. has been the better for it. Gloria Kottick Iowa City, Iowa, U.S. The job of a judge...
...ranch. The Supreme Court is shut down. There are seven people left in the city, and our job is to make sure that the furniture doesn't get stolen while nobody's home. There's no traffic. You can park anywhere. It's perfect. It's paradise. Except for one thing...
...hard to fix, so are high oil prices. Even backers of the president's energy bill won't fix things anytime soon. One senior Bush official acknowledged that while prices might come down some they would remain stubbornly high and there was not much the White House could do except press for final approval of drilling in the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge-"If we can't pass it with $2.75 gas when can we?" the official muses-though of course those holes in the tundra won't produce much while Bush is in office. The White House will try some...