Word: atlantas
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...also uncomfortable with waiters, masseurs and Scientologists. So every time I'm on a plane, I wish they would just let me get out of my seat and attend to my own in-flight needs. Delta offered to meet me halfway. I could be a flight attendant on an Atlanta--to--Los Angeles trip so long as I completed one day of its 5 1/2-week flight-attendant-training program--and also attended to the needs of everyone else on the plane. I didn't know if I was more surprised that Delta would let me ruin a cross-country flight...
...Hotel Indigo is so locality-focused that each city's hotel has an entirely different décor and sponsors local art auctions and singer-songwriters in the lobby. There are guitars for guests to play hung on the wall in Nashville and a dog named Indie residing in the Atlanta hotel. Indie is hosting canine cocktail parties this summer. "We've got the element of surprise of a boutique," says Jim Anhut, head of franchise development at InterContinental Hotels, "with the conveniences of a big brand...
...door announcing that a tornado had been reported nearby. "Whatever," another man said dismissively, holding a Corona, before adding, "We can't get tornadoes here." Not so. Major cities with skyscrapers aren't less vulnerable to tornadoes than rural, flat areas. Consider the tornadoes that swept through downtown Atlanta and parts of New Orleans earlier this year, and the series of deadly tornadoes that battered Salt Lake City, Nashville and Miami in the late 1990s. "They're a very rare event," Jim Keeney, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Kansas City, Mo., office, said of urban tornadoes...
...Chain Campaign Atlanta businessman Kirk Dornbush has raised millions of dollars for the Democratic Party and its candidates over the past 16 years. Before campaign-finance laws banned unregulated soft money, he recalls, there were times he walked around with six-figure checks in both pockets of his jacket. But these days, he does much of his fund raising in a much humbler fashion: selling $3 key chains and $25 T shirts at Obama rallies. At the first merchandise table Dornbush set up for a Georgia event, "we were just completely sold out," he says. "There were lines of people...
Growing up in Atlanta at the end of segregation, Evelynn M. Hammonds faced her share of discrimination as one of the earliest groups of black students bussed to white schools...