Word: flighted
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That's Ryan's life, and he loves it. "Last year I spent 322 days on the road," he says. "Which means I spent 43 miserable days at home." He's not so much a frequent flyer as an occasional lander. On one flight, when a pilot sits next to him to chat and asks, "Where do you live?" he replies, "Here." Ryan is a citizen of Airworld, as he explains it in the Walter Kirn novel on which the movie is loosely based. "Airworld is a nation within a nation, with its own language, architecture, mood and even...
...from the home office, over a picture-phone device like iChat. Ryan is stricken. Natalie's plan threatens not his job - he can stay in Omaha, Neb., and make the kill calls - but his way of life. No more first-class treatment; no familiar salutations from hotel clerks and flight attendants who are his equivalent of friends; no more great sex with Alex. Just chained to a desk in, really, Omaha...
...tennis team picked up right where it left off last season. The 2009 Ivy League champions posted impressive results this weekend at the 17th annual William and Mary Invitational, sending two players—sophomore Holly Cao and freshman Hideko Tachibana—to the championship match in Flight A Singles. “I’m really impressed with the way our team competed this weekend,” Crimson coach Traci Green said. “We’re a week and a half into school and our freshmen were terrific. They come with...
...active players in heart problems than ozone, and that two different processes may be occurring as we inhale unclean air. First, the fine matter triggers changes in the central nervous system, causing a switch from the more controlled regulation of body processes to a more instinctive, automatic fight-or-flight response. This revs up the heartbeat and causes blood pressure to spike as the body may be responding to the presence of foreign, potentially dangerous particles in the air. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
Read about the effort to subdue Reid on the flight...