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safely fly closer together, and even shift some of the responsibility for maintaining a safe separation of planes from controllers to pilots.
• But almost nothing has happened as FAA officials anticipated.
• Increasing capacity is no longer as urgent as it once seemed. The 1 billion passengers a year the FAA predicted by 2014 has now been shoved back to 2027. Air traffic operations -- takeoffs, landings and other procedures -- are down 26 percent from their peak in 2000, although chronic congestion at some large airports can slow flights across the country.
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Chicago-area school to unveil photos, coffins, artifacts in horror writer's 'Death Collection'
• EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Acclaimed horror writer Michael McDowell couldn't get enough of death.
• He collected photographs of people after their demise, whether from natural causes or after crossing paths with someone with a noose, knife or a gun. He gathered ads for burial gowns and pins containing locks of dead people's hair. He even used a coffin housing a skeleton as his coffee table.
• Now Northwestern University, which months ago purchased the "Death Collection" McDowell amassed in three decades before his own death in 1999, is preparing to open the vault.
• Researchers studying the history of death, its mourning rituals and businesses that profit from it soon will be able to browse artifacts amassed by an enthusiast author Stephen King once heralded as "a writer for the ages."
• McDowell's long career included penning more than two dozen novels, screenplays for King's novel "Thinner" and director Tim Burton's movies "Beetlejuice" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas." He also wrote episodes for such macabre television shows as "Tales from the Darkside" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."
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Convicted mobster hoping to make a hit in the restaurant world with Mafia-themed NJ eatery
• COLLINGSWOOD, N.J. (AP) -- When he was on trial for racketeering back in 2001, Angelo Lutz denied the mob's existence, but now he's using his past in organized crime to promote his new restaurant, the Kitchen Consigliere.
• The sign out front echoes the logo for "The Godfather" but with a chef's hat. A mural on one wall puts Lutz, also known as Fat Ange, at a table with famous gang (Continued on page 25)
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