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...Most of the 197 people on board had already started mingling and moving about the double-decker cabin to discuss business matters and reactions to take-off. Others looked around, in and under the seats and overhead compartments and checked out the toilets (especially the one with the window and faux-marble lid in first class) as the crew prepared champagne, orange juice, fruit and hors d'oeuvres. Those still in their seats tested the goods: the channels and games on the touchscreen and the reclining capability...
...immediate cause of the trouble is the A380, a $14 billion, 555-seat, double-decker plane that is one of those bet-the-company ventures, so beloved by the aerospace industry, that either succeed spectacularly--as the Boeing 747 did--or risk sending a firm into a tailspin. Remember Lockheed's L1011? Mechanically, the A380 works. But Airbus has had to tear up its delivery schedule several times because of nagging manufacturing problems, primarily involving wiring. That has enraged launch customers; some have canceled their orders. FedEx and UPS walked, which killed the cargo version of the plane...
...There’s a certain unique appeal to playing games in the library," says Allen Cheng ’09, one of the event’s organizers. Interjects Benjamin S. Decker ’08, president of the HIMG and interactive media concentrator, "It’s taking...
...Media Forum Room was packed with disheveled gamers, intently bent over their laptops. "We decided we might be over-capacity," says Decker, "but we didn’t care." Badass...
...HIMG’s inaugural gaming event. “It’s the first such event that I’ve ever heard of,” says Allen Cheng ’09, one of the organizers of the event. The president of HIMG, Benjamin S. Decker ’08, said that his organization is “trying to establish a community of gamers in the area.” “In the long term, we’re pushing to get a more official media studies program here at Harvard...