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A blueprint that flies
Business, airlines, travelers hail expansion


The newly approved airport expansion
won't fix San Jose Airport's most
glaring deficiency: outdoor boarding

Photo by Mercury News Staff Photographer Eugene Louie

WHILE USERS HAIL the expansion of the San Jose International Airport, and businesses say it's required for the continued expansion of Silicon Valley, your Aunt Agatha may still have to board and disembark her flight outdoors, on the tarmac. Seven million more passengers and about 7,000 more flights should arrive by the year 2010 but because the plan adopted by the City Council limited the terminal size, Terminal C passengers will be hoofing it through rain and shine to and from the planes.

Story by Mercury News Staff Writer
Janet Rae-Dupree
Questions and answers
by Mercury News Staff Writer Barry Witt
A graphic look at the expansion
Voice your opinion on the issue

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Just say cool!

DESPITE vowing once to never use "e-mail" as a verb, Mike Cassidy has. But he's not "cool" with using it or the other bits of computerese and slang that have found their way into common usage.

Dispatch column by
Mercury News
Staff Writer
Mike Cassidy
business

Pay to play on AOL

Hourly charges: `Premium prices'
will be tacked on each month.

AMERICA ONLINE game users will begin pay-as-you-play pricing after July 18. Industry analysts anticipated the change saying flat-rate pricing is generally believed to have hurt revenue at many companies. They say the nation's largest Internet service and content provider is testing the market to see if subscribers are willing to pay extra for choice content.

Story by Elizabeth Wasserman
Mercury News Staff Writer

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Drug improves angioplasty, but cost is high
BOSTON -- An anti-clotting drug substantially reduces the risk of routine angioplasties, but its high cost may discourage its use, researchers say. The medicine, called ReoPro, was initially approved for angioplasty patients who were at high risk of heart attacks and other complications. However, many doctors were reluctant to give it to run-of-the-mill angioplasty patients, in part because it increased the possibility of unwanted bleeding.

Poll: Americans reluctant to punish adulterers
NEW YORK (AP) -- Americans denounce adultery more easily than they condemn the adulterer, according to an Associated Press poll taken amid the furor over military sexual misconduct. By 51 percent to 35 percent, a majority of Americans say marital infidelity should not disqualify a person from a leadership position. And an overwhelming 73 percent think adultery should not be punished as a crime.

Mozart operas uncovered by Iowa musicologist
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Iowa music history professor has found portions of two little-known Viennese operas he says were written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The New York Times reported in Thursday's editions.

Pharmacist recounts Hinckley's unwanted attention
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A pharmacist at the psychiatric hospital where John Hinckley Jr. has been confined since shooting President Reagan in 1981 described Hinckley as a nuisance who gradually grew threatening.

California sets boundaries for new area code
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California will soon have its 18th area code. The state Public Utilities Commission adopted final boundaries Wednesday to split the 916 area code in Northern California.


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