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...South Africa, armed with eucalyptus drops and decongestant tablets to counter a chest infection she developed days before. Fearful of jeopardizing her cheap, advance-purchase fare, she didn't consult her doctor?or tell the airline. "I'm a danger to other passengers," she admits. "But if I cancel my flight, that's it. My holiday's gone." For Wilson, as for so many others, air travel has become less of an adventure and more of a calculated risk...
...Lear has staved off every major threat with a combination of logic, persuasion, threats to cancel a whole episode (or the whole series), and scathing contempt for the censors' "think-tank mentality," his term for the corporate and governmental attitude that underestimates "how wise-heart a great many Americans...
That night Fernandes visited the campus' six dormitories. At each, students met her by the hundreds. "They were yelling. They were arguing. They were crying," she says. They hurled frantic questions. Was a murderer among them? Was she going to cancel any classes? Would the school close down? After each answer, interpreters shouted her ASL into speech for the hard-of-hearing who did not sign; others pressed her words tactilely into the hands of the deaf and blind. At one dorm the oversize crowd spilled outside, and Fernandes signed in the halo of a sidewalk light, her audience spread...
...Their devotion to public service has only increased over the years. Currently, Bono is working on Jubilee 2000 and its Debt Relief Campaign, aimed at convincing the world's eight richest nations to cancel the debt owed by Africa's poorest countries...
...name, David adds to "four; Manship, his middle name, is an "eight"; Hollister is a "ten." Four and eight add to twelve, so they cancel out in a base-twelve system...