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...aircraft galley to one per passenger. These ideas were discarded, but more practical ones were quickly implemented. Korean Air removed two unused TV antennas previously mounted on the rear of all its planes. The reduction in drag saves almost 30 kilograms of jet fuel per hour. Pilots now shut off one engine while they taxi, saving yet more fuel. And luggage is now loaded farther aft, shifting each plane's center of gravity and helping to keep the nose lifted with less power while flying. "We've got to make these ideas work," says Lee Chul Hyung, head...
...raise rates because tariffs are fixed by the government?and the government doesn't want to relax tariffs because that would contribute to inflation. "If prices go up a little higher and there's no subsidy in the works, then of course we're going to be shut down," says the executive...
...TIME, the rest of the news media, Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge, politicians, theorists, commentators, specialists and so forth?just shut up. With your rants about even the remote possibility of bombings, you are doing exactly what the terrorists want you to do: instill uncertainty in American lives. Enough, already! The risk of attacks is a price we Americans must assume?and pay. We must respond to these risks with standard precautions and watchful waiting. Then, if the unthinkable occurs, we will deal with it. We should behave the way our law-enforcement and natural-disaster personnel do: quietly, efficiently...
...July and this past New Year's and all last year and the year before that? I'm not holding my breath. Allan Weir Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. You at TIME, the rest of the news media, Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge, politicians, theorists, commentators, specialists and so forth, just shut up. With your rants about even the remote possibility of bombings, you are doing exactly what the terrorists want you to do: instill uncertainty in American lives. Enough, already! The risk of attacks is a price we Americans must assume - and pay. We must respond to these risks with standard...
Finally, after nearly twenty years, Art Spiegelman has returned to comix, generating the same excitement among the comixcenti as Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick's long-delayed final film brought to cinephiles. Though Spiegelman's name may not be as well known to the general public as Kubrick's, his 1986 Holocaust memoir Maus, featuring cats as Nazis and mice as Jews, remains the most recognized graphic novel ever published. In spite of this, Spiegelman became, as he says in the introduction to his new book, "like some farmer being paid not to grow wheat," writing essays and doing cover...