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...clean." Airlines generally insist their air is neither polluted nor unhealthy. But in January, British Airways admitted to a problem with its fleet of Boeing 777s after crew members reported a high incidence of nausea and fainting. Poor air distribution led to still pockets of air forming at head height in parts of the airplanes, says BA, forcing some staff to work in conditions that were "like a hot day with no breeze." Boeing has said it is studying ways to improve the airflow. For passengers, too, air distribution has become an issue: many new planes no longer have individually...
...spend too little (thus spending more on delivery costs than they make back on the sale of low-margin comestibles). If I have one clear vision of the future, it's of my slack-jawed grandchildren begging to hear again about what it was like to live in the height of the mythical door-to-door boom. Yes Virginia, you really could get a candy bar and a copy of Spartacus within minutes without stepping outside your front door. Of course, that was back before the piranhas - and their old-fashioned emphasis on profit - took over...
...card, I knew it could work," Bannon recalled last week. The card had been signed by "Tweeds" Bush in cherry-red ink, presumably to distinguish his signature from those of three lesser stickball officials. Above the names were spaces for descriptive data, such as weight, height, hair and eye color and, most critically, date of birth. Bannon rushed back to his dorm and typed in a fake name ("Everett B. Ford"), address and his team name: the Trojans. He then affixed his school picture as a special touch. "When classmates saw the finished product, they got on board," says Bannon...
...Bozo TV shows, Chicago's was probably the most elaborate. At its creative height, it had a 13-piece orchestra and guest circus acts, including sword swallowers and trapeze artists. There was also lots of familial repartee between Bozo and his clown sidekicks. In 1990 five years of tickets were given out in just five hours via a phone hot line that logged 27 million calls within Illinois alone...
...smooth Kaleil and nerdy Tom, started a business called govWorks.com Their good idea was to end infuriating lines at places like the motor-vehicle offices by letting us pay routine fines and fees via the Internet. The company attracted giddy amounts of venture capital, employed 200 people at its height and went belly up inside of two years. This gripping documentary doesn't exactly say what went wrong, but the pain and puzzlement of its principals as things inexorably fall apart is palpable and saddening...