Word: contact
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When I got off the flight, having said bye-bye to the line of uninterested passengers, I felt cured of my discomfort with the passenger--flight attendant relationship. A little eye contact and the speedy dispatch of my garbage are all they're looking for. That and the free flights for everyone they know...
...would find on, say, a Sony PSP. On the iPhone, users navigate by tilting the motion-sensitive device. Another application, which takes advantage of the phone's GPS, is a location-aware social network; fire up the app and you can see whether any friends or people in your contact list are nearby. "We make serendipity happen," said Loopt founder Sam Altman. For the first time, one could be walking down a street in New York City and realize, for instance, that a college roommate is nearby. The Loopt application will be free at the iPhone App Store; Monkey Ball...
...darkest day in the Air Force's recent history, when trigger-happy fighter pilots in broad daylight killed 26 U.S. troops and their allies flying on a routine mission after mistaking the choppers as Iraqi. "We as an Air Force have had our own painful experience with eagerness for contact," he said. "Some have suggested, for example, the shoot down of two UH-60 helos in Northern Iraq in 1994 as a case in point...
...client in the holding cell before the arraignment he was very clear that he intended to have a lawyer," Jackson said. "As soon as he got in that courtroom, everything changed." Trial observers said it was very unusual, if not unknown, to permit co-defendants to have such prolonged contact during the sensitive arraignment process in a conspiracy trial, in which decisions can be made that shape the proceedings. It remained unclear whether the opportunity for an extended conversation between the prisoners had arisen inadvertently, or had been planned by the court for prisoners who have been isolated for years...
...running mate from the start. That wasn't just for fund raising: in state after state, the campaign turned over its voter lists - normally a closely guarded crown jewel - to volunteers, who used their own laptops and the unlimited night and weekend minutes of their cell-phone plans to contact every name and populate a political organization from the ground up. "The tools were there, and they built it," says Joe Trippi, who ran Howard Dean's 2004 campaign. "In a lot of ways, the Dean campaign was like the Wright brothers. Four years later, we're watching the Apollo...