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...apology. JetBlue also enacted its own "Customer Bill of Rights," which says that passengers will not be stranded on the tarmac for more than five hours. It also entitles stranded passengers to travel vouchers if the cause of the delay was within JetBlue's control (weather problems, which account for about 42% of all the industry's delays, are considered uncontrollable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying the Precarious Skies | 6/11/2007 | See Source »

...account of the disappearance of the little girl in Portugal, I have been thinking a lot about one of your books lately, A Child in Time. Did you base the book on a real story or was it all just a creation of your very sensitive mind? -Verónica Meersohn, Puerto Montt, ChileIt was something I invented. Although stories like this are occasionally in the newspapers-so I must have read a couple of stories in newspapers about such things. It struck me as peculiarly painful and retched experience for a parent to go through, especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ian McEwan | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...almost as daunting as those confronting the nation when Lincoln spoke. The perpetuation of freedom in the world is no more certain today than was the perpetuation of our free institutions then. Of course, we have the example of Lincoln to guide us. And Ferguson's wry and sardonic account of the ways we remember him is heartening and even inspiring, almost despite itself or despite ourselves. But the failures of leadership of the 1840s and 1850s should also chasten us. Nations don't always rise to the occasion. And the next generation can pay a great price when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning from Lincoln's Wisdom | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

Today 119 U.S. plants produce 6.14 billion gal. of corn ethanol a year, according to the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), an industry trade group. An additional 86 plants are being built or are expanding, which could account for 6.4 billion gal. more a year. But William Tierney, a risk-assessment consultant with John Stewart & Associates who specializes in corn ethanol, estimates that an additional 400 projects in various stages of development could add 28 billion gal. to the RFA's conservative figures. Add 5 billion to 10 billion unannounced gal. that Tierney expects to hit the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corn-Powered in Yuma | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...Reports that Jennifer Aniston will pen a tell-all book about ex Brad Pitt and his paramour Angelina Jolie were denied by Aniston's publicist, only to be replaced with more riveting news: the former Friend is the newest spokeswoman for Smartwater. "Need to hydrate that bank account!" quips celeb watcher PEREZ HILTON. SCORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 18, 2007 | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

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