.... automation imposes heavy workloads on human air traffic controllers and increases the risk of accidents in heavy traffic situations. Capacity limits are being reached in both airports and airspace, with congestion delays in departure and arrival schedules reaching record numbers. Funds to upgrade the air traffic control system are available in the trust fund created to receive the tax applied to airline passenger tickets and the tax on fuel for general aviation. The General Accounting Office says modernizing the air traffic control system will cost at least 17 billion for just the first 5 years of the FAA¡¦s 15-year National Airspace .....

.... Although the Islamic community prohibited figural imagery, the community’s rapid expansion during the centuries after its inception diluted the rigidity of traditional customs. Assimilated countries and cultures that practiced figural art before the Islamic armies came continued to do so. These assimilated artistic styles did utilize figural imagery, yet they still reflected the traditional artistic components of Islam. The introductory plaque at the entrance of the Islamic Art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art states that Islamic art is characterized by ‘stasis,’ and that even assimilated foreign styles have “al .....

.... of a UN inter-agency humanitarian assessment mission which arrived in the country on Tuesday reported the centre of the capital was "completely destroyed" and resembled a ghost town. They said dead bodies, many rotting, littered the streets. The mission, made up of field representatives from DHA, UNICEF, WFP, WHO and leading NGOs, also reported the cargo and passenger units of the Maya-Maya international airport were badly damaged, but said the tower seemed to be functioning. A field hospital in Kintele, set up by MSF-H two weeks ago, was reported to be in an appalling condition with no supplies or medicines left. Some 2,000 Rwandan re .....

.... obliged to start school until the age of six, 51 per cent of four-year-olds and almost all five-year-olds are enrolled in infant classes in primary schools. The Department of Education and Science direct the educational system. The primary education sector comprises primary schools, special schools and non-aided primary schools. It serves about 500,000 children. There are just over 3,200 primary schools, which account for the education of 98 per cent of children in this sector. They receive capital funding from the State, supplemented by local contributions. There are funding arrangements for some schools in disadvantaged areas and for .....

.... came to power in the major industrial centres [sic] with the support of the rank and file soldiers and the industrial workers" (1). Victor Serge and Natalia Sedova note in their book The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky that Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin all three were in favor of the Bolshevik revolutionary platform. Several of the Bolshevik party lines were directly influenced by the Parties strong belief in the proletarian class ( ). These men felt that the workers should be in direct control of production and distribution in the factories, banks and the industries that the Bolshevik party deemed necessary to organize. The Bolshevik lea .....

.... Navy ships were kept. They were hoping to take out the Navy and were almost successful. They expected the aircraft carriers to be in the harbor, but luckily were not. Although the attack may have been a success to the Japanese, it became a huge mistake in the end. One reason it was a mistake was it caused the U.S. to enter the war. The United States was the ultimate cause to Japan losing the war. Secondly it made the Americans angry and determined to destroy the Japanese. Recruiting offices were flooded with young patriots who wanted to help their country out. This attack was just an example of what could have happened if the war had cont .....

.... had about eight different styles to choose from, so they could better enjoy the voyage (Titanic, p.2). Some of the suites had fire places that burned coal in the sitting room and gigantic beds in the bedroom. the most expensive suite had five rooms and a private bathroom, this truly was a luxury liner. Most upper class people had dinner at a huge restaurant on deck D (Titanic, p.2). It was 92 ft. wide and 114 ft. long. (Titanic, p.2) . The restaurant sat about 500 people (Titanic, p.2). There were a few other places to have dinner on the boat, even a real French restuarant called, "Cafe Parisien" (Titanic, p.2). During the day many r .....

.... Vasubandhu and Asanga 13. Indian sculpture India from the Paleolithic Period to the decline of the Indus Civilization The earliest periods of Indian history are known only through reconstructions from archaeological evidence. In the late 20th century, much new data emerged, allowing a far fuller reconstruction than was formerly possible. This section will discuss five major periods: (1) the early prehistoric period (before the 8th millennium BC), (2) the period of the prehistoric agriculturalists and pastoralists (approximately the 8th to the mid-4th millennium BC), (3) the Early Indus or Early Harappan Period (so called after the excavate .....

.... had accomplished its manifest destiny, it reached from east to west, from sea to shining sea. Now that the lands it so desired were finally there, the United States faced a new problem- how to get its people to settle these lands so they would actually be worth having. Realistically, it is great to have a lot of land, but if the land is unpopulated and undeveloped, it really isn't worth much. And the government of the United States knew this. One of the reasons that many did not choose to settle there immediately was that the lands were quite simply in the middle of nowhere. They were surrounded by mountains, inhabited by hostile India .....

.... this time were love, faith, religion, reality versus illusion, and artistic creativity. Allegory took a major role in its literary characteristics. Much of the is reactions against forms and rules. is an attitude of imagination and vision, which values a vast freedom in style! Romantics of this period saw the imagination as the means for tapping into the universal truth and finding knowledge. Many objects of the physical world became symbols of spiritual or intellectual truth. For example, Edgar Allen Poe pursued with great intensity the Gothic mood. He made material data of his stories symbolic representations of intense and ang .....