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...single purpose: contain escalating fuel costs by wringing every last bit of mileage out of their aircraft. One idea the team floated during early brainstorming sessions was to ask crew members to lose 4.5 kilograms each, thus lightening in-flight loads. Another was to install rest rooms next to airport gates, using the power of suggestion to encourage passengers to shed a few grams by relieving themselves prior to boarding. Someone even proposed limiting the number of toothpicks in the aircraft galley to one per passenger. These ideas were discarded, but more practical ones were quickly implemented. Korean Air removed...
...returned to what she knew best?family and India?and filmed Monsoon Wedding in New Delhi in the summer of 2000. Working with a handheld camera, she captured four scenes a day, completing the entire shoot in just one month?despite losing five days' worth of film to an airport X-ray machine. Giddily enjoyable but unsparing in its treatment of darker subjects like infidelity and pedophilia, Monsoon Wedding was the budget hit of 2001, topping the foreign-film box office in the U.S. and taking $30 million worldwide?the most ever for an Indian film. "Monsoon Wedding...
...service is bad, you'll have only yourself to blame. Self-service kiosks--those ATM-like machines that let you check in at the airport or check out at the grocery store all on your own--are sweeping into more retailers and service spots. Big-box stores like Home Depot and Wal-Mart are rolling them out, as are movie theaters, convenience stores, sports venues and even courthouses...
...familiar: another example of President Vladimir Putin's state of denial over the unflattering reality of the war in Chechnya. The catastrophe, which killed 90 people, occurred just a few days before a disputed presidential election in that breakaway republic; the two flights had departed from the same Moscow airport; the planes crashed within a minute of each other; eyewitness reports suggested that an explosion had downed one of the planes; and a hijack distress call preceded the crash of the other plane. Yet Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and its Transport Minister reflexively rejected the explanation that seemed...
...bill, now set at $1.2 billion. But even then, we'll be paying for the Games for years and years to come. It would be churlish to suggest that all the money and hard work went to waste. We have a new light-rail line and a spanking new airport, among other badly needed infrastructure improvements. And while they're still counting the number of visitors to the Games, the tourism ministry assures us that the industry could get a 25% to 30% boost because 4 billion TV viewers got a picture-perfect image of our magnificent country...