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Success for Rutan's maverick creation was by no means assured. There were 24 teams competing for the X Prize purse, which was set to expire at the end of this year. Modeled on the Orteig Prize--which motivated Charles Lindbergh's celebrated transatlantic flight in 1927--the X Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Invention of the Year: The Sky's the Limit | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

Has one song ever had so much impact? Do They Know It's Christmas?, the sing-along single recorded by U.K. supergroup Band Aid in 1984 to raise money for starving Ethiopians, was the beginning of a fundraising phenomenon. The song, which brought together everyone from U2 to Wham! (an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do They Know It's Simplistic? | 11/28/2004 | See Source »

To appreciate how George W. Bush and John Kerry each look at the world, it helps to start with Sept. 11, 2001. Minutes after American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon that morning, President Bush, who had been reading to schoolchildren in Sarasota, Fla., phoned Vice President Dick Cheney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As The Election Nears, The Question Remains Who Will Make Us Safer? | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

The real test for the online agents may be how they fare against the hotels and airlines, which have begun trying to drive bookings to their own websites with guaranteed lowest rates and amenities like a free spa visit. "The Holy Grail for online travel firms will become dynamic packaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Travel: The Race Is On! | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

For quite a while, airline passengers have been able to surf the Web via in-flight phones. But airlines embracing wifi aim to make Web surfing more practical. Last May Lufthansa introduced a high-speed wi-fi Internet service called FlyNet on flights between Los Angeles and Munich. Its Charlotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commuter Fix | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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