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...They may not be needed back. United Airlines told CNN Tuesday that it plans to cut at least 20,000 employees, or 20 percent of its workforce, joining the announced-layoff parade at Continental (12,000), U.S. Airways (11,000) and Northwest (to be announced). Midway is already in bankruptcy. Continental, the most debt-ridden of all the majors, is talking about it for October. And many airline-watchers expect United and American to follow suit - not least because a bankruptcy filing would protect them from getting sued by victims? families...
Harvard dominated for the next 20 minutes with crisp passing through the midfield and some savvy through balls past the flat Colorado College defense. Although they continued to barrage the Tiger goal with shots, the Crimson failed to capitalize on numerous scoring opportunities. Midway through the first half the momentum switched drastically when the Tigers inserted sophomore striker Jessica Reyes. Reyes provided the Tigers with the spark they needed as her creative play up front drew the focus of the Crimson defenders. With Reyes threatening the Crimson backline, the Tigers were able to develop cohesion between the midfielders and forwards...
...what about the political questions? Did the President know all this when he made his decision on stem cell research? Friday morning, midway through a Crawford press conference, Bush was given the chance to answer that very question...
Lewis says the letter sprang from a discussion on advising during a meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education. He said that midway through the discussion, he realized that often the advice given by the College has been incorrectly focused...
...every operation, which is used in the rest of China solely for late-term abortions or patients under extreme stress. But here, thanks to the drugs, all patients are unconscious during the 10-minute operation. "We've performed over 7,000 'no-pain' abortions since we began the service midway through 1998," one long-haired nurse at Guangzhou's Second City People's Hospital boasts. "Now all the hospitals in the region give 'no-pain' abortions...