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Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced measures Monday to improve runway safety, including the installation at major airports of lights that signal pilots when a runway is safe to enter.
The candidate wants to speak in front of Berlin's most dramatic prop. Romesh Ratnesar explains why Germans are hesitant
A Defense Department report warns of the possibility that exotic drugs or implants could create a fearsome new enemy
An operation to remove a malignant tumor from Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain was successful, and the Democrat should suffer no permanent damage from the procedure, his surgeon reported Monday.
After a six-hour operation, the senator expects to be hospitalized for a week
Surrounded by family, a smiling Sen. Edward Kennedy left a Boston hospital Wednesday morning, a day after his doctors announced that he has a malignant brain tumor.
He's being released from the hospital and will travel to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport
The hospitalized politician "remains in good spirits," his doctors say
Sen. Edward "Teddy" Kennedy -- patriarch of the first family of U.S. Democratic politics -- now faces the battle of his life after doctors disclosed he is suffering from a malignant brain tumor.
Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced measures Monday to improve runway safety, including the installation at major airports of lights that signal pilots when a runway is safe to enter.
The candidate wants to speak in front of Berlin's most dramatic prop. Romesh Ratnesar explains why Germans are hesitant
A Defense Department report warns of the possibility that exotic drugs or implants could create a fearsome new enemy
An operation to remove a malignant tumor from Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain was successful, and the Democrat should suffer no permanent damage from the procedure, his surgeon reported Monday.
After a six-hour operation, the senator expects to be hospitalized for a week
Surrounded by family, a smiling Sen. Edward Kennedy left a Boston hospital Wednesday morning, a day after his doctors announced that he has a malignant brain tumor.
He's being released from the hospital and will travel to the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport
The hospitalized politician "remains in good spirits," his doctors say
Sen. Edward "Teddy" Kennedy -- patriarch of the first family of U.S. Democratic politics -- now faces the battle of his life after doctors disclosed he is suffering from a malignant brain tumor.
Sen. Ted Kennedy was undergoing more tests Monday as doctors tried to figure out what caused his seizure.
The longtime politician is taken to Massachusetts General after suffering an apparent seizure
Sen. Edward Kennedy was hospitalized in Boston, Massachusetts, after suffering an apparent seizure Saturday morning, his family said.
Ah, tax day. The day that we all get together to give our money to an organization that none of us believe actually deserves it.
Hillary Clinton and John McCain are arguing that Barack Obama is too green for the job. But history shows that when it comes to the presidency, experience doesn't guarantee success
As that "great determinator" Super Tuesday quickly draws near, some new high-powered celebrity endorsements – as well as additional bolstering by loyal top-name supporters – are adding further rhetoric to the race.
Sen. Ted Kennedy's endorsement of presidential candidate Barack Obama made headlines across the nation, largely because the Kennedy family was thought to be firmly situated in the Hillary Clinton camp.
Sen. Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama's presidential campaign is hugely significant. But not for the reasons that pundits suggest.
Shedding her private dismay that she's not the most charismatic candidate, Clinton allowed her humor -- and anger -- to peek through
Some historians credit Republican President Warren G. Harding with running the first campaign that made use of celebrity endorsement.
White House hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday articulated his position on the role of religion in America, but avoided details about his personal faith.
Some are comparing his speech on Mormonism to the one JFK gave in 1960 on his Catholicism. But there are differences
Mitt Romney is brushing off comparisons between his upcoming speech about religion and John F. Kennedy's famous 1960 address, but the White House hopeful says the subject is an important one in the campaign.
Fifty years ago this Saturday, Laika -- a sweet-tempered stray plucked off the streets of Moscow -- was thrust into the global spotlight when she became the first living creature sent into space.
The prosecutor called it "one of the most chilling plots imaginable." But the rhetoric may not match the charges
The fourth suspect wanted in connection with an alleged plot to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport turned himself in to Trinidad authorities Tuesday, police said.
Four men have been charged with conspiring to blow up jet fuel supply tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
New testing on the type of ammunition used in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy raises questions about whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, according to a study by researchers at Texas A&M University
Jack Valenti, the longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America, died Thursday of complications from a stroke he suffered in March, his family announced. He was 85.
In October 1925, a 12 year-old boy in a small California town wrote in a school assignment that he "would like to study law and enter politics for an occupation so that I might be of some good to the people." The boy: Richard Milhous Nixon, some 43 years before being elected the nation's 37th president.
A futuristic new jet hopes to be the biggest revolution in commercial aircraft design in fifty years. With a radical new shape, its designers believe it will use 25 percent less fuel that today's planes and be no louder than a car driving down your street.
Days on the road 100.
Lloyd Bentsen, a former congressman, senator and treasury secretary, is dead, his family told CNN on Tuesday.
Ron Howard had an interesting point.
Everyone has CEO fantasies. But mine aren't about running a multinational; they're about fabulous offices, sweeping views, luxe travel. So a test-ride on US Helicopter's new Manhattan-to-J.F.K. airport shuttle (launching March 13; $159 each way) is total wish fulfillment.
Everyone has CEO fantasies. But mine aren't about running a multinational; they're about fabulous offices, sweeping views, luxe travel. So a test-ride on US Helicopter's new Manhattan-to-J.F.K. air...
LETTERS TO FORTUNE
As a child at the White House, Caroline Kennedy got early lessons in the power of words.
You might imagine that soaring fuel costs, vicious fare wars, and the specter of bankruptcy would discourage a major airline from making any major architectural statements. Not American Airlines: T...
THERE ARE CERTAIN DISEASES OF the executive mind that presage collapse and total ruin. I have always been interested in these, as I watch for signs of them in myself. Stress, excessive privilege an...
IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH, YOU SEE just about everything, I guess. Robber barons who once reengineered thousands out of their jobs become philanthropists. Austrian movie stars morph into high state o...
One was a wealthy Bostonian, handsome but sickly, a rakish war hero uncertain about his future.
It seems as if every airline has partnered with a famous fashion designer to outfit employees. Delta has deals with Kate Spade and Richard Tyler, Julien Macdonald (Givenchy) works with British Airw...
When John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, he was worried about losing Protestant voters.
The five Northern Irish sisters who landed at Baltimore/Washington International Airport last Tuesday hardly looked like dignitaries, which is why U.S. agents reacted skeptically when the McCartney women revealed the purpose of their visit to the U.S.: they had come to meet George W. Bush.
Computers, health care, and environmental engineering are hot now. But what was hot then? Over the three-quarters of a century that FORTUNE has been chronicling the world of big business, each deca...
Buttons and stickers and signs, oh my!
Some rarely seen pictures of President John F. Kennedy, his wife, Jacqueline, and their family will be among the items sold at auction by the late president's daughter, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, in February, Sotheby's auction house said Tuesday.
Bankrupt United Air Lines Corp. will soon offer premium-service coast-to-coast flights exclusively geared toward the upscale traveler, according to a report published Friday.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of President John F. Kennedy joined Sen. John Kerry at a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Friday, the latest high-profile woman to stump with the Democratic candidate.
On radio, most pundits and polls scored the September 26, 1960, debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy a draw, with some giving the Republican contender the edge. But on television, it was no contest.
To those of us who eat, sleep and occasionally drink politics, nearly everything that happens in a presidential campaign is interesting, but very few things are really important.
U.S. presidents have guided us to wartime victory and plunged us into economic depression. All of their triumphs and failures can teach us a thing or two about our own careers.
The aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy has collided with an unidentified dhow while on patrol in the Arabian Gulf, the U.S. Navy said.
"Kennedy is the Remedy," "I Back Jack" and "Leadership for the 60s" are just some of the slogans on posters, buttons and pennants that adorn the walls claiming allegiance to John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The Kerry-Edwards campaign has accepted a schedule for three presidential debates and one vice- presidential debate, the campaign announced Thursday.
Gentlemen, start your hair dryers.
A Queens, New York, man has been charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, including several personal items that once belonged to John F. Kennedy Jr., a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office told CNN Wednesday.
The last time a major political party put forward a Roman Catholic candidate for President, he had to confront bigotry and suspicion that he would be taking orders from Rome.
The last time a major political party put forward a Roman Catholic candidate for President, he had to confront bigotry and suspicion that he would be taking orders from Rome.
The owners of forged love letters purported to be the secret correspondence between President John F. Kennedy and actress Marilyn Monroe are trying to stop the government from destroying them.
Imagine a jet in a tailspin: the earth rushes forward, the altimeter spins wildly, and the temple-thumping tension threatens to escalate into panic. Good pilots don't panic. Escaping a death spiral...
You're in the supermarket, with the usual barrage of bells and whistles competing for your attention. New-and-improved this, flavor-blasted that. It's all so assaulting, it becomes a blur. Then you...
Airports are no longer just places to catch planes. Between the shopping, spa treatments, and kiddie museums, who needs to be on the 11:30 A.M. to Dallas? As delays become more prevalent, airports ...
Preparing to meet JetBlue Airways CEO David Neeleman--by all accounts the most successful, innovative airline founder to hit the scene since Herb Kelleher--I'm thinking I'll encounter a certain swa...
In an effort to de-stress travelers, Bombay Sapphire is moving two large aquariums full of tropical fish from airport to airport (one just left J.F.K. for Miami; another is on its way to Madrid fro...
Here's a debate for the ride home from D.C.: Is our nation's capital the magnificent emporium George Washington envisioned or the town of Southern efficiency and Northern charm J.F.K. wryly observe...
John F. Kennedy may not enjoy a reputation for fidelity, but when it came to his briefcase, his commitment knew no bounds. For evidence, look no further than the lone briefcase that he kept from th...
Dreamlike strains of New Age music fill the air as Allison, a shapely twentysomething, ushers me into the softly lit, mirrored chamber. Aromas of camphor and lavender waft forward. The painted ceil...
For the past few years, the promise of radical tax reform has been smoldering across the ideological landscape of America. Washington pundits and the shut-in intellectuals of the New York City-Bost...
THE ALL-PURPOSE SUIT
Now that in-line skating is the sport of choice for about 16 million free-wheeling Americans, including the likes of Madonna and J.F.K. Jr., the number of model styles in this $250 million market j...
You're running late. You have a flight to catch. Your mental state is perilous. Who ya gonna call? Mobile Psychological Services, that's who. The service (based in Manhattan, of course) will pick y...
Most accounts of the life and death of John F. Kennedy fall into two equally useless categories -- hatchet job or warm, wet kiss. To that extent, President Kennedy: Profile of Power (Simon & Schust...
Q. In late 1992, we paid $1,200 to establish a revocable living trust after going to a seminar on probate. To fund the trust, we had to transfer ownership of our assets from us to it. That's when o...
You talk about a labor lobby. Well, it is a child compared to this utility lobby . . . ((It is)) the most powerful, dangerous lobby . . . that has ever been created by any organization in this coun...
WHEN WILLIE was nine years old, his parents bought their first TV. That year there was a presidential election. Willie watched nearly all of the Republican and Democratic conventions -- the meeting...
On average, the 30 Dow industrials have gained a modest 4.1% in the first year of presidential terms since World War II and 3.3% for the past eight terms shown at right. Such subdued advances, howe...
There's no disputing the final count. Bill Clinton won 43% of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes, while George Bush took 38% of the vote and 168 electoral ballots. Question is, does that marg...
On the face of it, you'd be silly not to be buying stocks nowadays. Corporate profits are swelling, and the economy is starting to boogie. The easy alternatives to equities, like bank CDs, offer a ...
Critics are gushing over the 1989 Chateau Haut-Brion Bordeaux. But don't expect enological excess from the vineyard's president. ''I think it's a little boring when people start talking about the p...
While nobody has made a big deal of it yet, there is a baby-boomer running for President. Bill Clinton, born August 19, 1946, rides the leading edge, the fortunate foam, of that demographic tsunami...
Maybe it's because we grew up in an era of unprecedented economic expansion and mass affluence. Or maybe it's because our parents defeated Hitler and clearly expected something equally big of us. I...
In which Keeping Up seeks to build upon Yuletide merriment by presenting its first annual list of the year's ten most hilarious happenings. A funny thing about this exercise is that it started out ...
Are you better off? Haunting question, eh? Especially with an election coming up. You doubtless recall that in a presidential debate in 1980, Ron asked how many people felt they were B.O. after fou...
Okay, the envelope, please. And the winner is . . . National Airport in Washington, D.C. National Airport? That's right, the homely little terminal our congressmen use to jet to and from the heartl...
! It wasn't cool to care about money in the '60s, but that shouldn't stop enterprising ex-hippies from making some bread off the relics of their peace- and-love past. You already know how lucrative...
Except for the author's opinions on substantive issues, Tip O'Neill's memoirs make marvelous reading. The former Speaker is a great storyteller, and like Jimmy Durante he has a million of them -- i...
In which your correspondent, egged on by hardly anybody, resumes his still unexplained habit of windily propounding questions guaranteed to remain unanswered. -- How could the mighty American media...
Q. I have a 30-year, $110,000 mortgage at 9% on my house. I want to increase the principal payments during the next 20 years before I retire. Can I simply make bigger payments without renegotiating...
When Joseph P. Kennedy II, Robert Kennedy's eldest son, founded Citizens Energy Corp. in 1979 to provide low-cost heating oil to the poor, some saw the nonprofit company as an ideal political launc...
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