Word: cabin
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...Israeli national airline, El Al, which has long faced the danger of hijacking. Although the airline resists talking about its security measures, it is known to conduct intense questioning and background checks of passengers before they board an aircraft. The pilots are sealed from the rest of the cabin, and armed air marshals are present on every flight...
Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the best-selling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, reached the hearts of Americans. Her many readers—it was the best-selling novel in history at the time—wanted to take action against slavery. But they could not break free from the constraints of the churches, political parties and laws that supported slavery. Stowe pessimistically concluded in her later years that “from the great institutions in society, no help whatever is to be expected...
...called Sukiyaki) and is popular again in Japan thanks to the plaintive rendition Diana plays in sold-out concerts and on a best-selling debut CD, which is dedicated to her father and other victims of the crash. When she finishes, she walks calmly into a log cabin and bursts into tears...
...Part of the JetBlue appeal is price - the rest is attitude. When's the last time you heard a flight attendant applauded? I did, on a JetBlue flight from Rochester, N.Y. to JFK. The cabin crew is pleasant without being too rah-rah, and efficient without being brusque. (It helps that they're not that busy, because JetBlue only serves funky snacks like blue potato chips and chocolate chip cookies, not the "real" meals that other airlines sling...
...romance of air travel. "We had no legroom, everyone was grum-py and the air stewardess was unfriendly," says Patrick Schepers, 13, of Peer, Belgium, after a recent long-haul flight. "It's the cocktail of ingredients," says David Dison, 46, a South African lawyer and frequent traveler. "The cabin pressure, the lack of legroom, the lack of air." But airlines' attempts to share blame with passengers may hold some water. Ishii says she knows she should have walked around, but stayed in her seat so as not to disturb her husband and his neighbor. And some passengers' behavior...