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London Calling. London's Stansted Airport, a low-fare airline hub, has been approved for expansion, which will increase its yearly flight capacity by nearly 10%, from 241,000 flights to 264,000 flights. The airport, located 45 minutes from London by express train, currently has one runway; plans to build a second one may get off the ground as early as 2009. (Also, in a few months, the U.K. government will determine whether Heathrow gets a third runway...
...relentless, exaggerated theatricality. The band members begin in an overcrowded cardboard box doing “cool” things like reading Borges and taking Polaroid shots of each other. A girl with two long braids (you’ll recognize her as Mel from “Flight of the Conchords”) and a man decked out in tan flannel travel from Tokyo to Paris in another cardboard box. The deliveries of weapons labeled “mutiny” to a furry unicorn and a comely bear reveal the ultimate literality of this video; the plot sequence...
Sadly, the album manages to get much worse than this. “The King of Hell” is shockingly bad, coming off as closer to “Flight of the Conchords” than Bob Dylan. “Saint Isabelle” also offers plenty of unwilling comedy. Its chorus, “I will always stand beside you, defend you and mend you, sanctify you,” might have seemed romantic in 13th-century France, but anyone born since then will recognize it as ridiculous...
...number of public figures in Britain have stepped forward to champion specific words, hoping to demonstrate they are compossible (possible in coexistence) with everyday speech. Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate since 1999, selected skirr, which refers to the rattling, scratchy noise that a bird's wings make during flight. "It's an appealing word with an onomatopoeic value and resonance," he says. Motion, an avid bird watcher, has already used the word on an evening radio program and hopes to include it in a poem if he can do so without "wrenching things around too much...
...Afghan army and police to U.S. and NATO intelligence personnel. After word reached Mubim that there was a "block" on what had been the only "safe road" back to Kabul, Kangley found himself hanging out in Bamian for three days more. "We eventually were prepared to take a U.N. flight out," he says. "The locals unblocked the road just in time and we left by car in an exciting all-night jaunt...