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Curse you, JetBlue. That, at least, has been the flying public's response to news that the airline has found another long-taken-for-granted amenity and started charging for it. Passengers who want to curl up with a blanket and pillow on their cross-country JetBlue flight now have to pay $7 for them...
...much sport is not enough," I am surprised that Australia and its games did not score in your "Games People Play" issue [June 30-July 7]. Polocrosse, a wild fusion of lacrosse and polo, has horses fitter than polo ponies and far more bruising action. Australian Rules, a cross between rugby league and Gaelic football, requires the utmost fitness, as there are virtually no stoppages and minimal reserves of replacement players. As for equestrian competition, when the Australian team won the Three-Day Event over the killer course at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, it was rumored that they practiced...
Simoncini is also moving beyond the dating game by launching two new media portals. VIOO is a kind of online women's magazine, while PEEXME is a social networking site for adolescents. The idea is to use Meetic to cross-promote the new sites, hopefully snaring some of the heavy traffic that flows through it toll-free...
...Cross Match reported revenues of $25 million. It now employs 165 people to make print scanners of different sizes. Even Martha Stewart noticed. "It's a new machine," she told Barbara Walters in November. "You don't have to get that ink all over your fingers...
After 9/11, the FBI and the military snapped up Cross Match scanners for deployment in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay to fingerprint al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Those prints, along with thousands of unidentified ones lifted from uncovered safe houses around the globe and from arrests made by allies, were fed into a classified terrorist-fingerprint database at the FBI's West Virginia fingerprinting facility. Cross Match scanners were sent to Iraq to book captured terrorists, insurgents and Saddam Hussein. (Saddam was annoyed, according to agents posted to Iraq. "This is how you treat criminals!" he is said to have...