Travel headaches add up as bad weather hits busy holiday week

From left, Nick Burton, Clancy Sloan and Graham Anderson rest while waiting for their flight at McCarran International Airport Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, in Las Vegas.

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By Jessica Plautz2014-12-24 20:52:13 UTC

The holidays: when good will toward men is on full display at airports and train stations around the world.

Just kidding. Holiday travel can understandably make people a bit crabby, and this year, a storm system in the Midwest and Northeast United States is adding to headaches across the country.

Flight delays began early this week, and showed no signs of letting up as of Wednesday afternoon. According to flight-tracking site FlightAware, the biggest delays are at Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport, O'Hare International Airport and San Francisco International Airport.

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The constant stream of travel complaints on social media makes you wonder how people vented their frustrations pre-Internet.

Despite lengthy security and check-in lines, most of the airport delays are due to weather. Passengers at several airports are reporting that Christmas Eve travel is relatively calm.

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Aggie grad happy to put off retiring to advance stem cell science

David Eller could have retired a long time ago.

At the age of 76, he could spend his days on permanent vacation fly-fishing in Idaho, golfing in San Antonio or skiing on the Italian-Austrian border like he has done to get away from work for many years.

He isn't working because he is desperate for money and accolades. He's had those for many years.

During the '80s, Eller oversaw revolutionary cattle cloning practices as CEO of Granada BioSciences, a company he founded. He served as chairman of the Texas A&M System Board of Regents from 1983 to 1989. The Oceanography & Meteorology Building on A&M's campus was named in his honor in 1988.In 2000, he was namedexecutive vice president and president of DuPont's European operations.He is president of Eller Holding Company, a privately-held family investment company.

Instead of settling down after a life of amassing great wealth and personal achievement, he co-founded Houston-based Celltex Therapeutics Corporation in 2011 and put himself at the forefront of the contentious issue of autologous stem cell therapy in the name of fighting for ill people to harness the healing properties of their own bodies.

These days it is Celltex that drives Eller's passion, enabling him to combine his humanitarian and entrepreneurial impulses and perhaps one day leave a lasting mark on health care. It is the culmination of the journey he began on the A&M campus in the late 1950s.

"When I started this company I really didn't need another job," Eller said. "I certainly didn't need one with so many rules and regulations we had to adhere to that gives us a lot of headaches. All in all, the biggest reward out of it is seeing people improve their quality of life."

Since 2011, the company has helped treat approximately 600 patients between the ages of 6 and 96 by injecting stem cells taken from their own bodies into a troubled area with no complications, according to Eller. He believes Celltex's reach could expand tenfold if the entire operation could be conducted out of the United States, where the practice was banned in 2012, but that could take years of fighting a two-front war.

The daily war is educating as many doctors and potential patients as possible on the benefits of being treated with a one's own stem cells. The second, long-term war is maneuvering through the FDA's web of red tape that currently bans the practice from being performed on U.S. soil.

Eller spent four years in the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets until his 1959 graduation, which he says plays a major role in his character.

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Space station visible from San Diego

The International Space Station orbits Earth roughly once every 90 minutes.

If skies are clear, the International Space Station will be visible for brief periods of time Friday through Sunday, says NASA.

On Friday, space station can be seen for three minutes starting at 6:38 p.m. The outpost will first be visible 10 degrees above the west-northwest horizon. It will be moving off to the southwest.

On Saturday, space station will be visible for an unusually long six minutes, starting at 5:47 p.m. You'll first see it 10 degrees above the northwest horizon. It will move to the southeast.

On Sunday, space station will be visible for one minute, starting at 6:35 p.m. You'll find the station 13 degrees above the southwest. It will be moving to the south-southwest.

The space station resembles a steadily moving ball bearing in the sky.

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Station Astronauts Send Christmas Greetings from the International Space Station

ISS astronauts Barry Butch Wilmore, NASA, Samantha Cristoforetti, ESA and Terry Virts, NASA send Christmas 2014 greetings from the space station to the people of Earth. Credit: NASA/ESA Story/pics expanded. Send holiday tweet to crew below!

There is a long tradition of Christmas greetings from spacefarers soaring around the High Frontier and this year is no exception!

The Expedition 42 crew currently serving aboard the International Space Station has decorated the station for the Christmas 2014 holiday season and send their greetings to all the people of Earth from about 240 miles (400 km) above!

Merry Christmas from the International Space Station! said astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA, who posed for the group shot above.

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is in the holiday spirit as the station is decorated with stockings for each crew member and a tree. Credit: NASA/ESA

Its beginning to look like Christmas on the International Space Station, said NASA in holiday blog update.

The stockings are out, the tree is up and the station residents continue advanced space research to benefit life on Earth and in space.

And the six person crew including a trio of Russian cosmonauts, Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Yelena Serova, and Anton Shkaplerov who celebrate Russian Orthodox Christmas, are certainly hoping for and encouraging a visit from Santa. Terry Virts even tweeted a picture of the special space style milk and cookies awaiting Santa and his Reindeer for the imminent arrival!

No chimney up here- so I left powdered milk and freeze dried cookies in the airlock. Fingers crossed, tweeted Virts.

No chimney up here- so I left powdered milk and freeze dried cookies in the airlock. Fingers crossed. Credit: NASA/Terry Virts

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