Boarding times at airports have doubled since the 1970s, prompting airlines to try all kinds of elaborate tricks to get passengers in speedily and leave the gate on time.

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Airlines Are Trying to Cut Boarding Times on Planes

After Amazon, Google is next out the gate with a cloud-based music player. The New York Times says the company will unveil a streaming-music service on Tuesday, which will allow customers to upload their music libraries to a “cloud” and then play it…

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Google to Unveil Streaming Music

Time was running out, and Mark Dickinson wasn’t sure whether he’d get to see his dying 2-year-old grandson one last time. A long line at Los Angeles International Airport’s security checkpoint had kept him from getting to his gate on time.

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Pilot waits for dying boy’s granddad

Well, there’s something to be said for being the first one out of the gate? Andy Martin, the self-proclaimed “King of the Birthers,” announced his intention to run for president in 2012, becoming the first official Republican candidate. Speaking on New…

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‘King of Birthers’ Announces Presidential Run

Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was freed from seven and a half years of house arrest and was greeted at the gate of her compound by thousands of supporters.

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Burmese Dissident Is Freed After Long Detention

Five militants wearing suicide vests and burkas attacked a U.N. compound on Saturday in the largest attack on a U.N. target in Afghanistan this year. After one man blew himself up at the gate, four other attackers entered the base and began a gun…

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