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Tangled web surrounds United's aborted Atlantic City routes
2015-09-28 09:33:07| Airlines - Topix.net
Desperate to draw visitors to Atlantic City, New Jersey officials gave United Airlines more than $100,000 in incentives to fly to the seaside resort for at least a year. Then, when United abruptly canceled the money-losing routes eight months later, the officials appointed by Gov. Chris Christie decided not to enforce a contract provision that required the airline to repay the money, The Associated Press has learned.
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New climate treaty draft still a tangled mess, but growing clearer
2015-07-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: If diplomacy is the art of keeping one's options open, then the negotiators of a new Paris climate change treaty must be consummate diplomats. And if using brackets in a draft text is the equivalent of a diplomatic emoticon--one that signals [uncertainty] [dispute] [intransigence]-- then the talks must have gone into a peculiar form of emoji overdrive. Put forth by the co-chairs of the Paris process on Friday, a new 83-page treaty draft remains a tangle of bewildering brackets sandwiched among...
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Tired of tangled wires? Samsung's new Level U Bluetooth headset might be for you
2015-07-01 19:26:26| Wireless - Topix.net
There's nothing worse than prepping for a jog only to find your earbuds in a tangled mess. Sure, straightening out the spaghetti isn't too strenuous a chore, but it never ceases to annoy.
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Do not pass go: the tangled roots of Monopoly
2015-06-24 12:54:41| Toys - Topix.net
The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury and the Scandal Behind the World's Favourite Board Game Mary Pilon Bloomsbury USA, 313pp, $27/A 20 My dad was born in 1924, five years before the great crash of 1929. One of the founding stories of my childhood was about his childhood: how, as a poor kid in New Haven, Connecticut, he really wanted a Monopoly set but couldn't dream of affording one - and so he made his own.
The Tangled Web of Wireless Charging-Mobile World Congress
2015-03-04 20:43:22| Electronics - Topix.net
Samsung Electronics Co. helped push smartphone wireless charging for mobile devices further into the mainstream at this year's Mobile World Congress - with an unlikely assist from the world's largest furniture maker.
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