Word: cincinnati
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Because no one in Batavia, a sleepy village of 1,600 on the eastern fringe of Cincinnati, Ohio, knows where Matt Maupin is, he is everywhere. SPC MATT MAUPIN--OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AND YOURS, the big electric sign at Jeff Wyler Auto Mall flashes once a minute. At the top of every hour, the local oldies radio station, WGRR, airs a booming jingle: "Joining you in all our prayers for Matt Maupin." Incongruous messages dot the strip malls along busy Route 32, which bisects Clermont County. PRAY FOR MATT MAUPIN AND FAMILY LARGE CHEESE $5.99, says the sign...
After high school, Maupin toyed with the idea of enlisting in the military but instead enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, studying aerospace engineering before switching to nutritional science. He also worked at the local Sam's Club warehouse store, stocking shelves. "He still works here," manager Mitch Cohen says. "He's just on a military leave of absence, and his job will be here for him when he returns." There's a tabletop display about Maupin at the front of the store, one of several in the area. Cohen, who has worked in New York and Florida, says...
...website for you. Cleanhotels.com has just begun offering a list of nationwide hotel rooms (15,000 so far) that don't offer pay-per-view porn among their in-room movies. The site was started two years ago by Citizens for Community Values (C.C.V.), a conservative organization based in Cincinnati that compiled a list of Ohio hotels that are porn free. Then Myer Hotels, based in Branson, Mo., stepped in to help expand the project into a listing of smut-free hotels anywhere in the country. The site is still in an early, beta-testing phase, but Chris Myer...
...Airways, in bankruptcy for the second time in three years, canceled dozens of flights and then misplaced an estimated 10,000 bags. Northwest Airlines kept about 280 travelers on a diverted plane for more than 14 hours straight. But Comair, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines based in Cincinnati, Ohio, may have won the Grinch Award: the airline canceled all 1,100 flights on Christmas Day because of what it said was a computer glitch...
...customer-friendly policies, but Delta is by far the biggest carrier to make such changes (America West Airlines started offering fairer fares in March 2002, followed by Alaska Airlines in February 2004). The airline hasn't published specific fares yet, but when it rolled out a test program in Cincinnati in August 2004, the highest ticket price to anywhere was $499 ($599 in first class). The delta.com website is also being revamped to ease the search for cheaper fares, as well as allowing passengers to get refunds and change tickets...