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...native of Seattle, Grinstein took his first flight on Northwest 70 years ago and has spent his entire career in planes and trains. He helped form one of the largest railroads in the U.S., saved Western Airlines by merging it with Atlanta-based Delta in 1987, and last year steered Delta past a hostile $9.8 billion takeover bid by U.S. Airways Group. A Delta director since 1987, Grinstein introduced more narrow-bodied aircraft for the airline's short-haul markets, doubled its international business to 36% of revenue and strengthened New York's John F. Kennedy Airport...
...clock is ticking for his 310 students. The goal: get them to graduation before they hit 21 and age out of the system. YABCS stress efficient scheduling. To attend, students must have spent at least four years in high school and have accumulated at least 17 credits. "Their transcripts tend to be a mess," says Michele Cahill, who helped create the Multiple Pathways program and is now at the Carnegie Corporation. Students might be missing the second half of algebra and three years of phys ed. "Ordinary high schools are not set up to deal with these kinds of gaps...
Since 2003 the U.S. has spent $20 billion on efforts to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure. "Success in Iraq will be ... a combination of military success, political success and reconstruction. And they've got to go hand in hand," said President Bush in December. But a new U.S. report shows that of eight reconstruction projects recently audited, seven had notable problems...
...were carried out by women. "There's a growing involvement of Palestinian women in terrorism, everything from scouting targets and smuggling guns and explosives to becoming suicide bombers," says Anat Berko, an Israeli counterterrorism expert at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, who spent 13 years inside Israeli high-security prisons interviewing convicted terrorists. And yet it remains difficult to pinpoint why certain women turn to martyrdom. Behind the motives of religion and rage at Israeli occupation, Palestinian women, far more than men, tend to choose self-sacrifice as an exit from personal despair, while others...
...biggest opportunities for flavor makers is the recent push by food manufacturers to market healthier packaged foods. A team of five researchers at IFF spent more than three years coming up with a low-sodium flavoring that could reproduce the salty taste of canned soups, for instance. Givaudan is also developing low-sodium, low-sugar and low-fat flavors intended to replicate the taste and texture of their full-figured counterparts. "We know how ice cream needs to taste to please an Italian, American or a Swede," says Givaudan spokesman Peter Wullschleger. "Taste and smell are cultural...