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...those of you who are sick of getting stuck with a seat by the aircraft toilet (again), there is deliverance in the form of SeatGuru.com-a know-all site that enables you to check the cabin configuration before you fly, so you can decide in advance which row and seat number to request...
...idea came from Seattle businessman and frequent flier Matthew Daimler. "In 2001, my job required extensive travel between San Francisco and Europe," he says. "I quickly noticed that there were a handful of prime seats and terrible seats in each cabin ... I started to post my observations on the Internet and there was immediate interest." Eight million visitors later and the site is providing seating information for 29 major carriers. SeatGuru.com uses color coding and icons to denote facilities such as laptop power connections and different types of entertainment systems, as well as to rate overall comfort level (based...
...hours before the most important race of his career, U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick was a calamity. Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...
...tollbooths. Driving down windy country lanes the car cornered beautifully and handled more precisely than you'd expect from a front-wheel drive setup. Of course, to be an Si fan means loving short-throw manual gear shifts and the squeal of a high-pitched engine in the cabin. It also entails trading a smooth ride for the rattling experience that comes with a sport-tuned suspension...
...jolt shook the passenger ferry Al Salam Boccaccio 98 during an overnight voyage across the Red Sea last week, stirring Girgis Rifaat awake in his cabin. "People began yelling 'Fire, fire!'" Rifaat, a 30-year-old Egyptian returning from his job as a salesman in Kuwait, told Time at a hospital in Hurghada. "I realized that the boat was going down." As the vessel listed precariously, Rifaat leapt overboard, swam to a lifeboat and waited 19 hours before being pulled out of the water by a helicopter. Most of the other 1,510 people thought to be on board, mainly...