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• Federal money may bring back Charlotte flights
The Charlotte County Airport is still stinging nearly five months after Skybus folded, ending commercial airline service to New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio.
• Weir shoots career-low 61 at Deutsche Bank
He also stars in a PGA Tour commercial with Wayne Gretzky, who urges Weir to grow a playoff beard as if these were the Stanley Cup playoffs. But when his wife and daughters (ages 10 and 8) arrived on Tuesday and his girls wouldn’t kiss him, Weir ...
• Obama's speech seen by 38 million-plus viewers
Nielsen said that 38.4 million people watched Obama's speech as it was carried live by 10 commercial networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo.
• Most viewed on msnbc.com
A commercial-style life vest weighs roughly half-a-kilogram, meaning 25-kilograms would be saved by removing them from a Dash-8 aircraft with 50 seats.
• Flying’s a literal headache for many travelers
Based on 3.3 billion seats available each year on commercial flights, with 70 percent occupancy, Dr. Israel Potasman and colleagues from Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa estimate that more than 100 million people suffer from flight-associated ...