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...enough seat room so that you could open a newspaper without slapping the passenger next to you. He ran the company out of New York's under-utilized JFK airport as opposed to the tumultuous LaGuardia. He clarified pricing so that you needed a computer only to book a flight and not figure out the rules. He treated his employees like he actually cared about them, so they are not the quietly seething, underpaid survivors serving at the majors. The result is a thing of beauty - when it runs right...
...that Suvarnabhumi's curved sections of roofing should be redesigned because they "look like waves when there shouldn't be water energy in that sector." But he believes the reopening of Don Muang, Thailand's long-serving facility north of the city, can bring relief not just by reducing flight load but because its terminal's rectangular shape makes for better energy collection. It's a proper gateway, in other words. So far, Suvarnabhumi has been more like a creaky door...
...flew toward his much anticipated five-day trip in Brazil, the Pope addressed the question of the "good standing" of Catholic politicians who support abortion rights - a delicate issue that has come up in the U.S., Europe and, most recently, Mexico. During an unprecedented 25-minute on-flight press conference, Benedict left little room for interpretation: pro-choice politicians not only should be denied communion, but face outright excommunication from the Church for supporting "the killing of a human child." The Pope's declaration came in response to recent comments from the spokesman of the Mexican bishops conference, who said...
...Standing before an Alitalia cabin full of reporters, two hours into the 12-hour flight to Sao Paulo, the Pope expressed his support for the Mexican bishops in the face of that country's first-ever law legalizing first term abortions. "Yes, that they are excommunicated isn't something arbitrary. It's envisioned in the law of the Church that ? the killing of a human child is incompatible with being in communion with the body of Christ...
...Slayton must have known, however, doing his job was precisely what Schirra was engaged in for the entire 11 days aloft. Astronauts were pilots first and showmen second. And while the silver flight suits and the smiling press events and the ticker-tape parades belied that, they were hired for their unique understanding of the machines they flew and their hardheaded ability to coax the most from them. That was Schirra's gift. And if flipping off his boss was necessary to get his work done, well, he was happy to do that too. Kraft, 83, wound up respecting Schirra...