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...trying to get from New York City to Chicago, you might want to try going through New Jersey. Not on the turnpike, but through Teterboro Airport, which is just 12 miles from Manhattan and forbids big airline jets. You can arrive just 20 minutes before your flight. Pull up to the "terminal" (a tidy, one-story brick building), pause for a beverage in the lounge with about a dozen other passengers, speed through security and stroll 25 feet across the tarmac to a luxuriously appointed Embraer business jet. Slide into one of the 16 spacious leather seats (there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Niche Airlines: Fly Luxe. Fly Cheap. Fly Naked! | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...south of the Korean peninsula's Demilitarized Zone?well within range of North Korean artillery. But the trip wire?the boots-on-the-ground guarantee that an attack on South Korea would automatically bring U.S. intervention?may soon be gone. Last week, Seoul and Washington announced U.S. troops will pull back at least 50 km to bases south of Seoul over the next few years. It makes military sense?a few thousand grunts were never going to block an invasion by the 1.1 million-strong North Korean military. And in an era of precision-guided munitions, officials insist the pullback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Run DMZ | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...matter what’s happening, she keeps her head high,” Huerta explains. “She does it all with an effortlessness and grace that not many people can pull...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Singer Discovers Heritage | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

Backed by a large group of rambunctious fans, Hall rallied at No. 1 after dropping the first game 10-8. She posted a flawless 9-0 second game before storming back from a 6-3 deficit in the third to pull out a 9-6 win. An epic fourth game capped the comeback, with Hall winning 10-8 to claim the decisive match. The Bulldogs dropped to 5-1 in the Ivies and second place...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Squash Three-Peats as Ivy Champs | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...always in the cards that [Hall] was going to pull a big one out,” Harvard coach Satinder Bajwa said after the match...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Squash Three-Peats as Ivy Champs | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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