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Review: '10 Buildings That Changed America' is a rewarding tour
The new PBS program "10 Buildings That Changed America" is nothing if not efficient. In a single breezy hour, it moves from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Gehry, racing in a chronological blur past Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi and a handful of other...
Tags: Ford Motor Co., PBS (tv network), Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, Architecture
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Furloughs over, so air controllers (and flights) back on schedule
A week after federal officials launched job furloughs at air traffic control towers, the controllers are back on a regular work schedule -- and airline delays are now caused primarily by severe weather. The number of delays over the week averaged...
Tags: Travel, Air Transportation Delays, Unemployment, Career and Workplace, Road Transportation
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Air traffic controllers' furloughs end
The furloughed air traffic controllers are back at work, and now the nation's airlines can blame only bad weather for delays in getting you to your destination. The furloughs that began about a week ago — delaying hundreds of planes across the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Air Transportation Delays, Travel, Air Transportation, Career and Workplace
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Boeing profit surges 20% despite 787 woes
Boeing Co., despite its flagship airliner being clipped by federal regulators, is still one of Wall Street's highfliers. The Chicago company reported that first-quarter profit surged 20% from the year-ago period, handily beating analysts' projections....
Tags: United Air Lines, Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing Co., Air Transportation Industry, Edward Jones
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Midwestern floodwaters show little sign of receding
Floodwaters that swept through the Midwest last week failed to recede Tuesday after another inch of rain fell in Illinois and surrounding states, and forecasters warned that more was on the way. Heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms battered the...
Tags: Bodies of Water, National Weather Service, Air Transportation Delays, Weather Warnings, Floods
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Scams blocking Chinese investors' path to U.S. green cards
Jianwei Li and two other wealthy Chinese businessmen thought they had a sure thing when they wired $1 million each to a California firm that had promised to build a fine Chinese restaurant in the Bay Area city of San Bruno. The project had an alluring...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, China, Marketing, Heart Attack, Immigration
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Ned Colletti is writing a different story these days
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- There is new spring in Ned Colletti's step these days, a brighter glint in his eye. Both are traceable to the same thing: Frank McCourt is no longer even a distant speck in the Dodgers' rearview mirror. Colletti, Dodgers general...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Newspaper and Magazine, Ice Hockey, Arbitration, Sports
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Janet Napolitano: Budget feud has resulted in long airport lines
The budget battle in Washington that is forcing cuts to federal budgets has already resulted in delays and long lines at some of the nation's largest airports, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday. At a breakfast meeting with the...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, POLITICO LLC, Los Angeles International Airport, Janet Napolitano
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United Airlines fined $130,000 over delayed flight
Federal officials fined United Airlines $130,000 for failing to notify passengers that they could exit a plane that was delayed in Chicago for nearly five hours. The fine is the result of federal regulations that require airlines to give passengers on...
Tags: Punishment, United Air Lines, Air Transportation Delays, Fines, Career and Workplace
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18 human heads shipped to O'Hare claimed by cremation service
It was just before Christmas when customs officials at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport discovered 18 pieces of cargo that had arrived from Rome. Labeled as human specimens, each piece came individually wrapped and were contained in...
Tags: Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Feds levied record fines against airlines in 2012
On the final day of the year, the U.S. Department of Transportation levied fines against two airlines that kept passengers stranded on delayed flights, pushing the number of violations issued against airlines in 2012 to a record. The federal agency...
Tags: Punishment, Panama, Air Transportation Delays, Fines, Pakistan
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Blizzard hits U.S. Midwest, wreaks havoc with travel
Fierce winds and snow smashed through the Midwest on Thursday, part of a weather system that has killed at least three and is setting the stage for miserable commuting and holiday travel through the heart of the nation. The winter-like weather didn&...Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Holiday Vacations, Weather Warnings, Federal Aviation Administration, Snow Storms
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