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...United pilots fly just over 50 hours, even in a busy month. Southwest pilots are paid for each trip, not each hour, so they have a strong interest in keeping flights on schedule. And because a big chunk of their compensation comes in the form of stock options, they tend to watch costs like bean counters. Air-traffic controllers say Southwest pilots are constantly pushing to get quicker routings to their destinations. On occasion pilots have even pitched in to help ground crews move luggage--a step virtually unheard of at Southwest's bigger rivals...
Unlike the rest of the medical community, pathologists tend to look favorably on the phenomenon. "I believe it raises the level of awareness patients have of their own health status," says Dr. Bruce Friedman, a professor of pathology at the University of Michigan. With the exception of predictive genetic tests, which Friedman feels only specialists should interpret, he believes a responsibly selected battery of tests could help patients more than it harms them. And the risks that so upset his colleagues? "There's probably a greater downside to ordering a total body scan or a lung scan than ordering...
Americans tend to treat ancient rituals like new cars, customizing them for convenience, then trading them in when something more exciting comes along. But that isn't the way belly dancing is seen by people like Don Gold, president of StudioWorks, a Thousand Oaks, Calif., video distributor whose parent company gave the world Tae-Bo. Gold just signed a deal with belly-dance instructor Dolphina, who teaches in Los Angeles, to distribute her Goddess Workout Fitness Video series because "we think we're ahead of the curve of a new revolution." It's possible that the practice will become classic...
Keynote speaker Pamela Thomas-Graham ’85, who is the president and CEO of CNBC, cited studies indicating that women tend to be more successful investors than men and that a third of working women make more than their spouses...
...Princeton] is a very fast team, and they’re very skilled too individually,” said captain Katie Scott, the Crimson’s sweeper. “Teams, when they fall behind 4-0, tend to give in. But we’ve always had a really close game against Princeton. I think this year will be no different...