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Susan Orlean has been to so many countries, she’s run out of pages in her passport. “I have so many frequent flier miles, I could go to Mars,” she says. Given her nomadic nature, it’s a surprise Rover has beat her to the red planet. Courtesy of all these racked-up miles, she and her husband made their honeymoon flight to China without paying a penny...
...outside the Science Center today and [Gladden J. Pappin ‘04] walked by. I tried to hand him a flier. I didn’t know you could convey such hatred through facial expressions. Harvard Salient, their facts are all wrong, but it’s the thought that counts...
...Heathrow to Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. to a Baltimore banker who was on his seventh Concorde flight and just wanted to get home faster than taking the traditional flight to New York. There was a corporate pilot who paid $ 9 for his ticket because his brother used frequent flier miles to pay the bulk of the fare. There was acrobatic flying champion David Martin and his wife who was probably secretly wishing they could get to the cockpit and try and roll the plane into a loop...
...white-knuckle flier, and she thought that this would keep me distracted." MIKE GOODWIN, 54-year-old passenger on newly launched Hooters Air, which features a buxom staff, on why his wife chose the airline...
...somersault, and are then caught by strong, capable people. I am clearly not one of these people, but am assigned to catch anyway. In a position usually intended for large, supple men, I am a disaster. I lack the strength to propel my flier into the air. After a few tries, and boosted by the saccharine encouragements of the team (“It’s all right, pick it up!” and “Get psyched!”), we get her airborne, but fail to catch...