Word: cabin
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...opening skit, for instance, shows the troupe cozy and snuggled together in a country cabin. What saves the audience from being overwhelmed by the niceness of it all, though, is the fact that these performers are talented, polished and very limber. All are expert at transforming themselves into inanimate objects, small children, slimy monsters, and so on. What they lack in satiric sharpness they usually make up for in fast pacing and the sheer accuracy of their mimicry...
Nowhere is the malaise of American service more obvious than in the airline business. Cabin attendants often stand by unconcerned, aloof and bored, while old folks and children struggle with their bags. Untended airplane toilets reek. Every flight seems to be late and/or overcrowded...
Safety experts advocate such short-term and relatively inexpensive improvements as clearer runway markings, tighter control over carry-on luggage that can hurl about a cabin in a crash landing, and greater fire resistance in airline cabin fabrics...
Routine had suddenly turned to terror after the jetliner, a Boeing 737, had been aloft for almost an hour on its 90-minute flight from Baghdad to the Jordanian capital of Amman. Passengers were just finishing a chicken lunch when a man suddenly ran through the cabin toward the cockpit, wildly shouting "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" A plainclothes security officer yelled, "Stop that!," but the battle between as many as four hijackers and half a dozen Iraqi security men had already begun. According to Passenger Dado, the first terrorist then lobbed a grenade into the rear cabin and another into...
Daniel Janzen, 47, is a tenured professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania, but for the past 14 years his home has been a rented, tin-roofed cabin in an isolated Central American wilderness. The location, Santa Rosa National Park on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, is ideal for his favorite pursuits: rambling across abandoned pasture, collecting seeds and caterpillars, weighing and identifying trapped mice, netting insects by night -- work he calls "muddy-your-boots biology." Janzen, in fact, spends so little time in Philadelphia that he maintains no residence there. He prefers to sleep...