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...Serbia and Russia remain fiercely opposed. The European Union, which would be the chief backer of the new state, is divided: some countries worry that recognizing a declaration of independence without the U.N.'s imprimatur will encourage separatists elsewhere. And some Kosovo Serbs, who account for less than one-tenth of the population, are threatening to secede. But open conflict seems unlikely. Belgrade has ruled out a military response and instead is threatening to cut off energy and supplies to the province. Because of the current uncertainty, NATO announced that some 16,000 troops will stay in the region. Back...
...software needed for full Web browsing. So instead, they came up with the idea of limited access for passengers, partnering with Yahoo and Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry. "If we just give people e-mail, that would solve 90% of the problem and would be one-tenth of the cost," Neeleman says. Full Web access would have been so expensive that the airline would have had to charge passengers to use it. "Nobody cares if it's not free," says Neeleman. "It's so irritating to go into a hot spot and have to pay." JetBlue and other...
...communities.In fact, the benefits are so overwhelming that I insist on taking the train almost anywhere I go—including when leaving Cambridge for home. I live in Chicago.The environmental and economic benefits of train travel are well documented: the emissions per passenger per mile are about one-tenth of flying, for example, and it was only after the Red Line was extended through Davis Square that that part of Somerville became the hip, up-and-coming neighborhood that it is today.But while I am a longtime Sierra Club member—and an economics concentrator to boot?...
...only wonder why students raised in those societies do not ask these questions, encouraging their governments to change their policies. More than that, I marvel at the fact that some of my colleagues apparently share the assumption that Arab and Muslim leaders are entitled to over one-tenth of the world’s land surface, while questioning the right of Jews to land about one-ninth the size of Syria. Do they really believe that Arabs and Muslims are innately so much worthier than Jews? Much has changed in the Middle East during the past six decades...
...this year. "Our business has more than tripled over the past three years," says Wendy Atchison, CEO of Ecosse, a boutique cyclemaker in Denver. Its $275,000 Titanium Series RR is handcrafted by welders, machinists, painters and upholsters. The bike's all-titanium chassis is stronger than and a tenth the weight of steel, very difficult to weld and brutally expensive. For those hours off the bike, owners can still keep their babies close: included with the Titanium Series RR is a $20,000 skeletal-faced watch that matches the bike's exposed engine...