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Animals learn by trial and error, and the smarter they are, the fewer trials they need. Traveling backward buys us many trials for the price of one, but traveling forward allows us to dispense with trials entirely. Just as pilots practice flying in flight simulators, the rest of us practice living in life simulators, and our ability to simulate future courses of action and preview their consequences enables us to learn from mistakes without making them. We don't need to bake a liver cupcake to find out that it is a stunningly bad idea; simply imagining it is punishment...
...Virgin America needs to rejigger some fairly major aspects of its corporate and financial structure--and then hope the DOT reconsiders. Meanwhile, the industry's other big regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration, has cleared Virgin to fly. The company has also hired enough employees, including dozens of pilots and flight attendants, to actually run an airline--if, that is, they're allowed to take...
...straphangers. The plane has a massive interior space, with small canvas seats along the sidewalls for crew and most travelers. But parked square in the middle of the plane's floor on this trip was the Pentagon's "Silver Bullet," actually an Airstream RV, which functions as Gates' in-flight office...
...backed by the U.S., invaded the country to oust the Islamist forces that had seized control of Mogadishu six months earlier. Outgunned by the superior Ethiopian army, the Islamists deserted en masse, with a core group attempting to retreat into the thick forests near the Kenyan border. The Islamists' flight left them exposed, which may have helped the U.S. track their whereabouts and move in for the kill. Approval for the raid came from Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, which had held power for all of 11 days at the time of the Jan. 8 strike...
...money behind them isn't. Green-minded airline passengers from as far away as the U.S. and New Zealand are stumping up $20 per plant, hoping the trees will absorb from the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to their share spewed out during a flight. To Ru Hartwell, project director of Treeflights.com, which offers the service, it's a "self-imposed green tax - something altruistic for the planet...