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...noticed that airline ticketing agents have an interesting language when it comes to describing how full a flight is. From my too-frequent air travels, I've learned that being "full" is not absolute. The scale of fullness includes: a somewhat full flight, a full flight and a very full flight. Or, in my very unfortunate case Friday evening of Memorial Day weekend, surrounded by families, extra luggage, strollers, in the middle of travel mayhem - the extremely full flight...
...indicates that potential home buyers are becoming more tentative. Maybe the best test of how U.S. consumers feel about the economy is to get in their minds regarding costly projects like building or remodeling a house. In the Internet age, if you're thinking of taking on a large-scale building project, you would likely visit home plan websites and building construction firms online. Visits to those sites are down 48% compared to the same time...
...sanctions announced Tuesday by President Bush, the coming months will see more horrifying news of massacres from Darfur, more wrenching refugee tales, more urgent calls for action. And the reason the Darfur crisis will continue to tear at the world's conscience isn't simply because of the scale and cruelty of the atrocities there, but also because the global community either won't or can't do enough...
Serra is still interested first and last in space and form, process and material, the working parameters of abstract art. But he also knows that by operating at this beckoning, intimidating scale, with this rough, forged-in-fire material, he sets loose associations--with the curves of the human body, with mineral formations and architectural space--that carry his work into complicated psychological territory. If he starts with complex solid geometry, he doesn't end there...
...fans buy food and merchandise--it eventually joined the crowd. Its resale site, TicketExchange, sold 600,000 tickets last year, compared with StubHub's 3.3 million. TicketExchange touts its status as the reliable authorized reseller for 230 venues and 46 pro teams. "[We deliver tickets] at a level of scale and consistency better than anyone else," says Ticketmaster CEO Sean Moriarty. Since teams usually limit the ticket prices that sellers can charge, TicketExchange eliminates both the deep discounts and the outrageous premiums. StubHub's response: the market should set the price. "Could you imagine if Ford said every time...