Computer updating will delay air travel across the nation
Air travelers face late planes and canceled flights as aging air traffic control computers are replaced. FAA plans to modernize radar and communications at centers in New York, Washington, Chicago, Cleveland, and Dallas Fort Worth, with full operating capability not expected for 18 months or more.
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New York
Bernard Loeb
National Transportation Safety Board
Congress
NTSB
Federal Aviation Administration
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas-Fort Worth
FAA
Statue in New York May Be Michelangelo Cupid
Art historian Kathryn Weil-Garris Brandt identifying a 3 foot Cupid statue in a Fifth Avenue building lobby as Michelangelo dating from 1494. Met Museum director Philippe de Montebello calls it monumental, noting no Michelangelo sculpture exists in America. The piece was seen publicly for years before Brandt confirmed its attribution.
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Cupid
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Michelangelo
Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
Philippe de Montebello
America
Brandt
Fifth Avenue
London
Stanford White
Italy
Five anti-Castro activists stopped off Florida Keys with weapons
A 26-foot fishing boat carrying a semiautomatic pistol with silencers, blasting caps, ammo and explosive components was stopped by a U S Customs vessel about a mile south of Marathon. The five Cuban Americans affiliated with United Commandos for Liberation were questioned and released. authorities said the incident remains under investigation. Some items were thrown overboard as the Customs boat approached, and divers sought possible weapons remains.
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Florida Keys
U.S
Marathon
Keys
Key West
Florida Straits
Cuba
Coast Guard
Wilfredo Fernandez
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Miami
United Commandos For Liberation
Customs
Mike Sheehan
Amtrak TB warning prompts TB tests for passengers
Health officials test hundreds of Amtrak travelers after a TB infected passenger coughing blood rode two trains from Chicago to Miami. Six cars are cleaned and air filters replaced as crews scrub cars and health agencies trace exposed riders. The risk to others is described as small and treatable, with testing as a precaution.
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Amtrak
Chicago
Jacksonville
Starke
Reardon
Landis Crockett
Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta
Marc Magliari
Washington
Debbie Hare
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