Word: progressives
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...second worst in the industry, and it flat out stinks. (US Airways is first, but you probably guessed.) The on-time rate improved marginally to 64.8% in April. More disconcertingly, while JetBlue increased traffic 11.6% in April, its capacity, the number of seats available, increased 12.8%. This is not progress...
...vibrant American democracy, unalienable rights, and the non-establishment of religion by the state. Yet The Salient continues to provide the perception that the Harvard conservative community is stuck in the feudal past—questioning and even opposing basic appeals to human rights, gender equality, and the progress of democracy. Admittedly, as conservatives, we share support for many issues such as the sanctity of life, but 21st century conservatives also support issues that move beyond the 17th century concepts of ordered liberty. Its advertisement seeking writers who “curl up next to the fireplace with a glass...
...revolution in migraines was very much in evidence last week in London as more than 600 scientists from 32 countries gathered for the biennial symposium of the Migraine Trust (whose patron, the late Princess Margaret, suffered from migraines). A ripple of excitement followed reports of progress in blocking a key neuropeptide called cgrp (more on that later). But the biggest headlines came from a seemingly unlikely source, the anti-epilepsy drug topiramate. Dr. Stephen Silberstein of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia presented a study of nearly 500 patients showing that topiramate significantly reduced both the occurrence and duration of migraines...
...large public high schools, one with a high graduation rate and the other with a long history as a dropout factory. But even at John Hope College Prep, the stronger of the two, only 27% of students passed state exams last year. Neither school was meeting federal requirements for progress under the No Child Left Behind Act. Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago public schools, was on hand to show some the district's biggest benefactors his efforts to change that...
...Pennsylvania's Democratic governor Ed Rendell and California's Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger (appearing by satellite ) were there, both discussing their major ongoing efforts to pass comprehensive reform this year. The ideological breadth of the coalition was also represented by the interest group members, including the liberal Center for American Progress (headed by Bill Clinton's chief of staff John Podesta) and the business group the Committee for Economic Development...