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Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt

FRANKFURT—Several staff members were injured when the nose gear of a Boeing 787 jetliner unexpectedly collapsed at a gate at Frankfurt airport on Thursday, its operator Lufthansa said. “Passengers had not yet boarded,” a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement, adding that crew members and ground staff were on board the aircraft at the […]

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Girl, Interrupted review

In 2021, the singer-songwriter Aimee Mann (perhaps best known, as a solo artist, for her contributions to the Paul Thomas Anderson film Magnolia) released an album called Queens of the Summer Hotel, a collection of somewhat narrative tunes inspired by Susanna Kaysen’s bestselling memoir of mental health struggle, Girl, Interrupted. Mann had been commissioned to write the songs for a stage adaptation that took years (and the duration of a pandemic) to materialize. Now finally at the Public Theater in Manhattan, Girl, Interrupted is a sturdy showcase for Mann’s gorgeous, shimmering-sad compositions, but perhaps a less successful conduit for Kaysen’s arguments.

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Liberal Government Delays Proposed Changes to Environmental Review of Major Projects

The Liberal government is pausing its plan to speed up and simplify environmental assessments for major projects and will be waiting until the fall session of Parliament to introduce legislation on it. The move comes in the wake of criticism of the planned changes from several environmental groups and members of the Liberal caucus who opposed the proposals, including provisions that would allow major projects to receive approval before undergoing a full environmental assessment and exempt some developments from protections for at-risk species. The government had recently called for public consultation on the proposed changes. Ottawa’s plan, outlined in two discussion papers released last month, also proposed changing the responsibility for reviewing new pipelines, transmission lines, and offshore renewable energy ventures away from the Impact Assessment Agency to the Canada Energy Regulator....

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