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The early accolades wouldn't bother the big airlines if only students and grandmothers were flying JetBlue. But the carrier is pulling in business travelers, the industry's most valuable passengers and the source of up to 50% of its profits. "We were starved for an airline like this," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Skies | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

It is easy to believe that racial profiling is a serious problem in America. It fits the American profile, and now politicians have stepped forward to give it credence as a problem. But is it a real problem? Is dark skin a shorthand for criminality in the mind of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hailing While Black | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

But unlike a chimp or any of the other modern apes that amble along on four limbs, kadabba almost certainly walked upright much of the time. The inch-long toe bone makes that clear. Two-legged primates (modern humans included) propel themselves forward by leaving the front part of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Giant Step For Mankind | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

I don't mean to compare Truman and Graham otherwise. Of course the personalities were different (Truman crisply combative, Graham rather shy, for example). And Kay Graham did not become president of the United States. She just took over a newspaper, and, at that time, not a great one either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kay Graham: The Best of the Best Part of Washington | 7/19/2001 | See Source »

I read George Orwell at an impressionable age, and I'm above average in my worry over an ever nosier Big Brother, with cameras everywhere. I like anonymity so much that when I'm out doing errands in baggy pants and mud-caked garden clogs, I stumble around without my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Someone To Watch Over Me | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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