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...AIRPORTS 28,000 Number of bags put into temporary storage when an automated baggage-handling system malfunctioned during the launch of a modern new terminal at London's Heathrow airport $8.56 billion Cost of the new terminal at Heathrow. During a glitch-filled first four days of operation, nearly 250 flights in and out of the new facility were canceled...
Driving into Baghdad from the airport, I see other changes. In commercial districts, more shops and businesses are open than there were a year ago. Shoppers are taking the time to haggle with vegetable vendors--a contrast to the furtive, hurried transactions I remember. There are no queues at the gas stations. Baghdad even sounds different. In my first two days, I hear no explosions or gunfire. At the TIME bureau in the Jadriyah district, we get four to six hours of electricity a day, up from just two hours. This means there are long spells when you can hear...
...Number of pieces of luggage misplaced when the automatic baggage-handling system malfunctioned during the March launch of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport...
...Veasey has a studio in an old radar station lined with a foot of lead and equipped with an industrial scanner 60 times as powerful as medical ones. But to make a life-size X ray of a Boeing 777 for Boston's Logan Airport in 2003, even that wasn't enough - he needed artistic ingenuity too. Over several months, he digitally stitched together 500 separate X-rays of the plane. The resulting picture is exquisite and gets beneath the surface of every detail. Except for the pilot and crew: for them, Veasey used skeletons as stand...
...Friday morning, British newspapers were lambasting the new terminal as a "disgrace," and BA then announced it would be canceling one out of every five flights during the terminal's second day. The airport held overnight meetings (while some passengers were sleeping on the premises) and its attitude toward journalists became decidedly frosty. An army of support staff holding clipboards and wearing blue t-shirts emblazoned with the question "Can I help?" marched around the terminal. Their answers to media queries mirrored official statements and were structured with supporting evidence. As one employee, who asked not to be identified, says...