Word: fedexing
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...hypersonic passenger planes around 2025. "We will have the capability to go after this in a big way. We're real excited." Paull is similarly bullish: "The applications are likely to initially be more for space or military. But scramjets have the essentials for a passenger plane." Rausch says FedEx have also expressed an interest in using the technology for a priority package service. As for turning the lights out on the in-flight films and food fiascos that define modern air travel, Rausch says killing off killing time "would be fine with me." Bye-bye economy class syndrome?hello...
...Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time (almost 9 million copies sold), whose battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) did not keep him from visiting Caltech in March. Charles e-mailed Hawking's assistant, and after making two small editing changes requested by Hawking, received a FedEx package from California the next day. Inside was a piece of paper bearing Hawking's freshly made right thumbprint...
...noon the day my flowers arrived, my room was awash in color. Unfortunately, the color of a $49 bouquet of tiger lilies from Flowerbud.com which had arrived by FedEx early that morning, was predominantly green because the lilies hadn't begun to open. "It doesn't feel like getting flowers," remarked a co-worker. "It's more like getting grass." The $62 multicolored tulips hand-delivered from 1-800-Flowers.com were brighter but a little ragged and carelessly arranged. I immediately tossed one droopy stem, and by the next day there were more brown petals...
...building without folks critiquing her choices. If she buys a slice of pizza, a stranger who recognizes her is sure to comment on her unhealthy habits. "I also used to love French fries, but I'd have to eat them in secret in my office." That is, until the FedEx deliveryman caught her and gave her grief. "His good-natured kidding got me to stop," Christine says. "My arteries are all the happier for it." Every so often, however, she indulges her passion for chocolate mousse...
...Bowl XXXV is a snoozer, here's who to blame: the ad wizards at Omnicom's BBDO New York. Between its clients Pepsi, Frito Lay, Pizza Hut and FedEx, the agency is populating nearly 30 percent of the game-time ad space all by itself...