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...upscale department store chain Nordstrom's, for example, employees routinely pass out free beverages to weary shoppers and their spouses. Similarly, low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines encourages its ticket agents to joke with passengers waiting in line to board a delayed flight...
...MediaOne's cable customers, using the cable lines to sell phone service and, in conjunction with At Home, high-speed Internet access. That last piece apparently scares both AOL and Microsoft. And so the biggest software company and the biggest online service emerge to contest the biggest phone carrier. MORE...
...force presses you back into your seat at takeoff from the air base at Aviano, Italy, or from an aircraft carrier in the Ionian Sea, you are really never flying solo. You and your wingmen move into a complicated choreography charted for each of the 400 daily sorties. Depending on how far you've had to fly--B-2s fly more than 15 hours from the U.S.--it's likely your plane will slow down to gulp fuel from an aerial tanker before your final run into hostile airspace. One of every three flights is an aerial tanker sortie--more...
...destination as slowly as you possibly can. I have tried it, and I have found that the world changes completely. The people in the street, the cars, the buildings and the trees all come into focus. The wind that before had been nothing more than annoying suddenly becomes a carrier for the smell of fresh flowers. Instead of just seeing the giant dump truck blocking your way, you notice the driver's wedding ring and wonder for a moment if he has any children at home. You see something cool in a bookstore's window...
...hour journey. Stealth target lists include dozens of deeply buried bunkers in and around Belgrade. Though the Serbs are gloating that these Tito-era nuclear-bomb shelters are impregnable, they may be in for a surprise: the Nighthawks are specially trained for such missions. Navy F-18s from the carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt are expected to see action. And the U.S. Army may get a chance to unleash its AH-64 gunships against Serbian targets. The choppers could also help take out Serbian special-forces units operating inside Kosovo--units the Pentagon is starting to believe engineered the "snatch...