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Loaded for take-off

Legend Airlines plans to chart a different course from the average meal-in-a-sack airline

By Ann Zimmerman
Jan 6, 2000

On the Monday before the new millennium, Legend Airlines' new work force, which numbers 150 and still counting, show up for their first day of training. Thirty flight attendants, a dozen pilots, and about 20 customer representatives arrive at the old Aviall building on Lemmon Avenue to be indoctrinated in...
Trojan pony

SMU engages in a stealth campaign to buy out owners of condos in an area it covets

By Ann Zimmerman
Dec 30, 1999

Sandwiched between Central Expressway and Southern Methodist University, University Gardens is a housing oasis -- an aging but genteel condominium complex offering all the amenities of the Park Cities without the steep prices. Its 350 units house mostly senior citizens and families, many of whom have lived here for decades...
After the fall

Heartbroken by the loss of his son on a DISD field trip, a father fights to prevent future tragedies

By Ann Zimmerman
Dec 16, 1999

The first thought Mike Perryman had as he climbed out of bed that Sunday morning nearly two years ago was that it was his son Colt's birthday. His quiet, brainy boy, his first-born son, his hunting buddy and best friend, was turning 15, and for the first time, he would...
Unraveling a mystery

Dallas-based researchers at last win some respect for their work on Gulf War Syndrome

By Ann Zimmerman
Dec 16, 1999

Dr. Robert Haley, chief of epidemiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, sounds as exuberant as a schoolboy winning his first science fair when he talks about all the media attention garnered by his team's latest study on Gulf War Syndrome -- results of which unequivocally point to...
Skating along

Fahim Minkah realizes his dream to build a roller rink where drug dealers once prospered

By Ann Zimmerman
Dec 2, 1999

This Is How We Do It" blares on the sound system, its driving rhythm pumping up the already fevered crowd. Preteens in their Tommy Hilfiger uniforms and fluorescent-colored skates sail across the polished maple floor, shrieking as they pick up speed, giggling as they watch their parents fall. Older siblings...

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