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...better for navigating menus and playing games. Even the keyboard version of the Treo comes with a stylus. But I prefer Graffiti the way it comes on the new Clie. Its screen records characters exactly the way you write them, helping me nail those pesky gs and 9s. Maybe someday I'll even write as fast...
Legend seeks to reverse that dismal trend with re-configured DC-9s equipped with 56 plush, rust-colored seats that are set two abreast and boast a king-size 46 in. between rows. The industry average is 32 in. for coach and about 38 in. for first class, one reason Legend trumpets itself as providing first-class comfort at coach fares. Why 56 seats? That's the limit for long-haul carriers flying out of Dallas' Love Field, under a 1979 federal law intended to protect the sprawling Dallas/Fort Worth airport, which just happens to be American Airlines' home base...
...niche marketing: customer-first service to business travelers from underserved locations in the Midwest, plus nonstop flights to major cities elsewhere. For both, customers pay extra to be pampered. Those premium fares in turn pump up Midwest's revenue per passenger mile, or yield. Midwest's 24 DC-9s feature leather seats set two by two with no center seats. Dealing with a third fewer seats than standard passenger planes have, flight staff can give more individual attention. Besides, says Bob Bell, president of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, "they have hot, freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies...
...many 9s do you pass when you start at 1 and count to 100? Eleven hundred men and women possessing a great facility for answering this and similar questions are spending a hot July weekend at Orlando's Peabody Hotel. They have come for the annual gathering of the Mensa society, a group that admits any applicant who has an intelligence-test score in the top 2% of the population; the question above is from a Mensa test, but SAT scores or any standard I.Q. test score will do. Mensa says it provides a "stimulating intellectual and social environment...
ESSAY Pico Iyer raises a toast to the 9s...