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...feel safer than ever because they have stepped up security to make passengers feel secure. The last thing the airlines need is more layoffs from a lapse in business.” Abby C. Bridges ’05 plans to fly home not only for Thanksgiving but for Columbus Day as well. “My flight plans for Columbus Day are pretty annoying,” says Abby. “They had originally planned to send me from Logan to Detroit and then to Memphis before I arrived home in Montgomery, Ala. I called the airline...
...other can opener is all around us. Every economic forecast starts with, "Barring further attacks?" Barring a truck bomb on the Golden Gate Bridge, the markets, consumer confidence, and the economy at large should all snap back. Barring a suitcase bomb in the train station in Columbus, Ohio, consumer spending won?t move lower for the indefinite future. Then, fear will seem very real even in small towns. Barring any significant counterpunch from any of the terrorists or their sympathizers in the U.S. or abroad, everything will be just fine...
...true realm of the fantastic beckons so seductively. Great anticipations hover over two projects that bring to the screen the most cherished franchises of fantasy novels in the past half-century: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Directors Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which opens Nov. 16) and Peter Jackson (The Fellowship of the Ring, due Dec. 19) have been on a sacred, scary quest. Each director must feel like a kid or a Hobbit who's been given a broom or ring with odd powers...
...helps that Turner and Meis are both sports nuts. When designing the first Major League Soccer stadium in the U.S., for the Columbus Crew in Ohio, they made sure concession stands faced the field. Says Meis: "The first time you miss seeing a goal, you figure out pretty quickly there's got to be a better way to do this...
...that much, at least, Thompson and his team succeeded. The ice from Kilimanjaro is now back in Columbus, Ohio, along with numerous other specimens wrested from earlier expeditions to the impressively high mountains that ring the tropics. During the next five years, Thompson plans to retrieve still more. If it weren't for his work, the world might forfeit a natural library filled with priceless archives. For like the rings of long-lived trees and the accreted layers of massive corals, ice encodes surprisingly precise records of swings in temperature and precipitation over the centuries. Once that ice starts...