Welcome to the fall fare hike MOST of the travel news this week has been focussed on the bomb threat against New York and Washington and the changes to air travel since the 9/11 attacks. But flying under the radar was yet another increase to airline ticket prices. On Friday, Southwest Airlines announced that it would join other domestic carriers in […]
Boston wants new limits on e-cigarettes The Boston Public Health Commission yesterday unanimously approved proposed rules that would crack down on the sale of electronic cigarettes, known as e-cigarettes and increasingly popular among teens, by regulating them like actual cigarettes.
The Boston Herald Officials fear 9/11 anniversary terror attacks Federal officials are investigating what they fear are plans for terror attacks on the Sept. 11 anniversary, possibly a car or truck bomb, officials and sources said yesterday.
Fox News After 9/11: Ten Years of Tech Made Airports Safer, Experts Say By hijacking planes from U.S. airports on Sept. 11, 2001, and flying them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, terrorists killed thousands of innocent people and first responders and revealed an ugly truth: Our airports were not safe.
ABC Dukakis Takes Perry’s Compliment Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis didn’t watch Wednesday night’s debate, but he sure did hear about it.
Post 9/11 travel: What airport security costs us Remember when you could arrive at the airport 30 minutes before your flight, get complimentary peanuts and a Coke and be greeted upon arrival by a loved one right at the gate?
Brain Blogger The NeuroSocial Network Social neuroscience is a rapidly growing discipline that examines the relationship between the brain and social behavior. The “social brain hypothesis” posits that, over evolutionary time, living in large, social groups favored the physical growth of brain regions important for social behavior. In non-human primates, some evidence indicates that the size of the amygdala is […]
The Christian Science Monitor IHOP shooting: Will police ever understand gunman’s motive? Authorities in Carson City, Nev., are still searching for the gunman’s motive in Tuesday’s shooting rampage at an IHOP restaurant. As they do, criminologists are suggesting that investigations could yet uncover why the shooter stepped from a minivan with a yellow “Support Our Troops” sticker on it and proceeded to kill five people, including three […]
Metro Hammered.org: Site promotes fun minus the hangover Got nothing to do and feeling too hungover to drink again – or just don’t feel like drinking at all?
Dismal summer for teen jobs may scar young Americans Teenagers hung out on street corners and on the steps of boarded-up buildings in impoverished downtown Newburgh one blisteringly hot August day this year.
San Francisco Chronicle GOP front-runner Rick Perry faces debate hot seat Eight Republican presidential contenders will hit the stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library today, and most of the spotlight and pressure will be focused on the newest face in the race: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Freeze Public Wages IN the face of this economic crisis, the federal government has all but declared unilateral disarmament. The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, has vowed to keep real interest rates near zero, but even at that level few are borrowing. Over at the White House and on Capitol Hill, the pursuit of deficit reduction has […]