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Delays Due to Clog Thanksgiving Air Travel
Take pictures, videotape or voice recordings of what's happening. It could be useful later as proof of your ordeal. Start a petition with fellow passengers and take it to the captain. Tell him or her you feel you're being held against your will and want to be returned to the gate. Call the media and alert them to come to the terminal. Call one of the hot lines run by airline passenger advocates and tell them what's going on. Always take water and food on the plane with you — enough for 24 hours — as well as a change of clothing, a toothbrush and any medications you may need. — Eric Weiner .
How do you stop Owens and Moss? Put a man on them!
Stat of the Week No. 1: New England has 44 more touchdowns than San Francisco. Stat of the Week No. 2 In its past two games, Detroit has a net total of 7 yards rushing. Stat of the Week No. 3: There were three return touchdowns and 459 total return yards in the Arizona-Cincinnati game. Stat of the Week No. 4: Miami has had 11 starting quarterbacks in the past five seasons. Stat of the Week No. 5: Philadelphia rushed for more yards (202) than it passed for (150). Note: This is not a misprint. Stat of the Week No. 6: Peyton Manning has thrown eight interceptions in his past three starts; he threw nine interceptions in the entire 2006 regular season.
Fact-Based Intelligence Prevails on Nukes and Iran
These have always been critical issues but are doubly important now that the United Nations, with strong U.S. support, is putting intense pressure on Iran not to develop the capacity to produce nuclear weapons. Iran is responding that under the nonproliferation treaty, to which it is a party, it has the right to develop nuclear power, and that is all that it is doing. But, as was the case with India and Pakistan, eventually Iran will probably justify having nuclear weapons on the grounds that its sworn enemy, Israel, has them. Now an already tense situation has become worse with Israel's unacknowledged Sept. 6 air attack on a supposed Syria nuclear installation, and the call by some hawks in this country for U.S. raids on Iranian nuclear facilities. There is, of course, a long history of nuclear tensions in the Middle East.
Vick Sought Mercy From Judge in Letter
RICHMOND, Va. -- Michael Vick declared "I am not the bad person or beast I've been made out to be" and asked for leniency in a letter to the federal judge who sentenced him to 23 months in prison for a dogfighting conspiracy. Vick made his handwritten plea from jail as he awaited Monday's sentencing by Judge Henry E. Hudson. His five-page letter and several others from Vick supporters, including baseball great Hank Aaron and former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, were released by the U.S. District Court in Richmond on Thursday. .
Improved startup repair tool, media throttling among Vista SP1 changes
If it hasn't been, we probably won't have to wait five minutes to hear the first complaints. At long last, for the first time, Vista adds support for a critical VPN service: Secure Sockets Tunneling Protocol. Microsoft developed its parent Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) for Windows Server 2003, but it's never been an intrinsic part of the client OS until now. The problem with most VPNs on Windows systems today is that they employ point-to-point tunneling (PPTP) or layer 2 tunneling (L2TP), which often find themselves blocked by firewalls. SSTP is an alternative protocol, not just a client setting, so the network server must be using SSTP as well -- so yes, this will probably be a heavily Windows-dependent feature. But it may give users a way to avoid having to defeat their own firewalls just to communicate remotely with their companies.
Political Junkie: Debates Lead Up to Iowa Caucus
The purpose of all those other states in moving up their primaries and caucuses to early February was to dilute the importance of Iowa and New Hampshire. In fact, it has had the opposite effect. Never before has what happens in Iowa been so important, even if the delegates at stake (45 Democratic, 37 Republican) are minimal. With three weeks to go, the once-asterisk candidacy of Mike Huckabee is the surprise story on the Republican side, while for the Democrats the question is whether Hillary Clinton's path to the nomination will be the slam-dunk everyone had once expected. But there's more to it than that. For many candidates who have invested so much time and money in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, finishing well back in the pack could prove to be their Waterloo.
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