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What are you willing to give up to make air travel safer? An additional $50 a ticket? $200? An extra half-hour spent undergoing security checks at the airport, or twice that? More important still, how many of us--complacent in the knowledge of American technological superiority, shielded here from foreign terrorism for decades--even realize how perilous the state of airport and airplane security is? For years safety measures, many of which are now standard elsewhere in the world, have languished here--victims of cost-benefit analysis, competing business interests and glacial government bureaucracy...
...changed. Two, three years ago, I'd have said "Heeeeehaaawww!!" and busted out to about 80. Screw the other cars--being the fastest one on the road means you're the winner. Screw cops--I can stay away from them. And even if they catch me, who cares? A ticket is a small price to pay for feeling alive...
Since then, I haven't really had any life-changing realizations that I should be more careful. I still have never got a ticket or gotten in a serious accident. So why have I changed...
Although summer is when the concert business usually generates much of its revenues, so far this season ticket sales are just O.K. With the movie industry anticipating record box-office grosses, onstage performers face some serious competition from the spectacular events taking place onscreen. Says Rob Light, a senior agent with the Creative Artists Agency, which is booking this year's H.O.R.D.E. music festival: "I don't think any of us anticipated how strong the movie summer would be, which always takes away entertainment dollars." And it was already a weak year. According to the trade magazine Pollstar, over...
...youngsters who enjoy punk rock, ska and skateboarding. Next week the House of Blues will launch an R. and B. tour, and in August, Perry Farrell, the progressive rocker who hatched Lollapalooza, will inaugurate a new venture: the tree-planting, obscure band-booking, alternative-to-alternative ENIT festival. Ticket prices vary from tour to tour and site to site but are usually under...