Selecting a Seatmate to Make Skies Friendlier

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The Dutch carrier KLM and others are testing programs to allow ticket-holders to upload details from their online profiles and use that data to choose seatmates.

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A second state court ruling affirming local authority over whether to allow hydraulic fracturing may embolden more towns to enact zoning prohibitions.
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The decision last autumn to lengthen the terms of low-cost loans to three years enabled some banks that had been on the brink to roll over their corporate bonds. Another offering takes place this week.
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Sifrhippus, which lived 56 million years ago, shrank from about 12 pounds to about eight and a half pounds as the climate warmed over thousands of years, researchers report.
The evolution of classic toys and games is beginning to reflect the fact that even young children are wedded to digital devices.
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In practice, super PACs have become a way for candidates to bypass contribution limits by steering rich donors to ostensibly independent groups that function almost as adjuncts of the campaigns.

Discontented Senegalese Vote for President

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After weeks of protests, voters decided whether the country's elderly president, Abdoulaye Wade, should be permitted to stay in power.
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A day before the United States and South Korea begin joint military drills, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un promised a "powerful retaliatory strike" if provoked by the South.
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The deadly militant Islamist group Boko Haram is thought to be aided by outside terrorist groups, but the anger it expresses is deeply enmeshed in the fabric of life in Nigeria.
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At the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, prisoners doing time for murder are caring for inmates with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
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