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...crowded flights. Oversized passengers will be accommodated at no charge if there are empty seats on the plane, but on full flights, they'll be bumped and seated on a later flight or given a refund. The airline says the new policy is in response to complaints from slimmer passengers crowded by their neighbors. Are Americans getting larger or are airline seats getting smaller...
...patchwork of one-newspaper towns. Profits are traditionally sky-high - margins run to 30% in some cases - and so is resistance to change. By contrast, Europe is a bloody battleground of national dailies, all clawing at one another. Competition breeds creativity, not to mention a willingness to live with slimmer profits. "The U.S. lost the beat on newspapers around the year 2000," says Vin Crosbie, a partner at media-consulting firm Digital Deliverance and the fifth generation of a Connecticut newspaper-owning family. "I'm just amazed that most U.S. newspapers update their websites once a day. In Norway...
Like other provinces, Anbar's election will be regulated by a law passed last fall that requires 25% of council members to be women. Without the law, many Iraqis acknowledge, there would be a far slimmer showing of female candidates. A similar quota was in place for the last round of nationwide elections, which took place in 2005. But in Anbar, where most of the province's majority Sunni population boycotted that vote, political participation for men and women alike is relatively new. "Democracy will be real in Anbar in 2009," says Jubbair Rashid Na'if, another high-ranking tribal...
...entertainment. Witness the frenzied scene a few nights ago at Broadway's Palace Theatre, where Liza is doing a one-woman show through Jan. 4. For one thing, she looks a lot better on a theater stage than she does under the close scrutiny of TV cameras - sleeker, steadier, slimmer. The spangly pantsuits flatter her. She sounded better too, at least when the hand mike was in its proper place and she wasn't being drowned out by the 12-piece orchestra, larger than that for many Broadway musicals. (See TIME's top 10 plays and musicals...
...biggest changes to the nano are physical. Apple ditched the chubby form factor of its last generation of nano for a tall, thin player, while keeping the screen size the same. While the slimmer player beats the old model on visual appeal, the new shape makes it more difficult to shove into a pocket...